[Ads-l] Am I the last one to notice this one PREBUT

[Jesse Sheidlower]

"prebuttal" won Most Original in the 1996 WotY vote:

http://www.americandialect.org/woty.html#1996

I'm not sure we've discussed the verb before, though.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 12:58:55PM -0400, Alice Faber wrote:
> From an article about the staffing problems of the Trump campaign, something
> that, I think, is apolitical:
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> "A team with a robust rapid response operation would have been able to brief
> reporters to prebut the speech, "
> 
> (From http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/donald-trump-does-not-have-campaign)
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