On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:15:06AM -0500, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote: > Thai restaurants are hardly rare in America. OED probably >won't get to "Pad Thai" in my lifetime, but "N" is coming up >soon. Just to give you a point of reference, our first cite for _nam pla_ is currently 1969. Jesse Sheidlower OED