LSSU Word Banishment

[Joel Shaver]

How about seed-and-eat grapes or olives? :-)

Don't mind me, I'm new here.

Joel Shaver
On Dec 11, 2003, at 3:58 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> Well, I'm not sure about that.  Should "Spray and Wash" be just
> called "Spray" because of course you're going to wash your clothes
> after spraying them (and not just spray them and put them back on)?
> How about "Wash 'n' Wear" clothes--should they just be called "Wash"
> clothes?  I think the idea here might be that you X them and then you
> immediately can and do Y them.  Scratch 'n' sniff movie cards.
> Scratch 'n' play lotto tickets.  Surely there must be an _American
> Speech_ paper on these formations in commercial English?
>
> Larry
>
>

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