POTUS & SCOTUS (1918); Old Indigestible; Oxford American Dictionary

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Apr 22 00:39:38 UTC 2001


On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    Spike Lee said he reached for a definition from his "trusty Oxford
> American Dictionary."
>    I could write a letter to the editor...nah, I'll let Jesse do it.

I don't understand what's noteworthy about this.

Fred Shapiro


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