slang from Punk Magazine

[Jonathan Lighter]

Mea culpa (anglice, "my bad.")

JL

"Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:
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>Shouldn't that be "flog"?

That's the tired English of the past.

Modern practice among the post-literati permits "flaunt" and "flout" to be
fully interchangeable: why not add "flog" and "flag" to the set?

-- Doug Wilson


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