[Ads-l] NYTimesOnline: "oggle"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 3 13:16:59 UTC 2016


If it matters, I actually *heard* _oogle_ ca.1979.

JL

On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spelling follows pronunciation. I haven't yet seen "oogle," but, no doubt,
> I shall.
>
> As chance would have it, I've never had occasion, myself, to speak _ogle_
> aloud.
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
>
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