Wodehouse & OED in today's NY SUN

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Wed May 21 18:56:26 UTC 2003


   21 May 2003, NEW YORK SUN, pg. 15, col. 3:

_P.G. Wodehouse_
_In His Own Words_
by Barry Day and Tony Ring
The Overlook Press
300 pages, $21.95


_Plum Pudding_
   By ROGER KIMBALL
(...)
   They also note that the OED credits Plum (as he was known to friends) with a passel of innovations, including "to put on the dog," "to give someone the elbow," hornswoggle," "lallapalooza," "crust" (for nerve), and "to oil out of."
(...)
  _Mr. Kimball is managing editor of The New Criterion_.

(The OED quote is highlighted in a between-columns blurb.  Ugh--it's all wrong.  Maybe someone from OED could write in to the SUN at editor at nysun.com--ed.)



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