"upset"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:

> I'm still a little squeamish about the horse-etymology.

Years ago I wrote an article in American Speech about the earliest use of
the word "skyscraper," which occurs in the name of a horse.

Fred Shapiro


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