Barry Popik's postings

Jonathon Green slang at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK
Wed Jul 31 14:51:08 UTC 2002


Come on, Jesse, of course you know: Samuel Johnson, who with the Rev. John
Elliott wrote in 1800 one of the earliest of US dictionaries: A Selected
Pronouncing and Accented Dictionary. By mistake (or so they claimed), they
included that fine word 'foutra'. But not, I imagine, in the second edition.

Jonathon Green



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