Wodehouse & OED in today's NY SUN
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Bapopik at AOL.COM
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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