[Ads-l] NYTimesOnline: "oggle"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 3 14:52:16 UTC 2016


So no influence from Barney Google's eyes?

I say, "Aw, why the hell not!"

JL

On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:
> Last previously used "?a1475"?
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> Joel
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>       From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>  Sent: Sunday, July 3, 2016 9:16 AM
>  Subject: Re: [ADS-L] NYTimesOnline: "oggle"
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> If it matters, I actually *heard* _oogle_ ca.1979.
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> JL
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> 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.
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>> As chance would have it, I've never had occasion, myself, to speak _ogle_
>> aloud.
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>> 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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