Zebert

[Aaron E. Drews]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Karl J. Krahnke wrote:

}A creative writing instructor here encountered the term "zebert" in a
}story written by a student.
}
}Does anyone know the distribution or source of this term or anything
}else about it?

Didn't Cosby use the word in the (reruns of) the _Cosby Show_?

--Aaron


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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                  Departments of English Language and
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics

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