[Ads-l] The President conversates:

[Ben Zimmer]

See Arnold Zwicky's 2008 Language Log post:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=340

...and this one by Eric Bakovic from 2004:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001331.html

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ask as a noun has been common in the nonprofit world for about a decade. It
> may go back earlier in more general sales talk.
>
> On Jan 12, 2017 8:24 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "I do have one final _ask_ of you as your President..."
> >
> > That's right up there with
> >
> > "5 blogs worth your _follow_."
> >
> >
> > As a Canadian buddy says, "What the hell, eh?"
> >
>
>

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