Folk etymology

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Oct 20 06:25:12 UTC 2000


At 2:02 PM -0400 10/20/00, David Bergdahl wrote:
>I've only known "86" as "the item is on the menu but we're out of it";

Well, if we're really going to push the folk etymology of RU486, it
might be claimed that that gloss isn't entirely ungermane.

larry



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