Typo? New word?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Must've been written by someone who used to "party hardy" [sic] twenty years ago.

JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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At 10:08 PM -0500 12/22/04, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Newsweek January 3, 2005:
>
>Google's goal ... is a task HARDILY joined by heavyweights Microsoft
>and Yoohoo ...
>
>-Wilson Gray

Hardily? Yoohoo? What is Newsweek on these days? Actually, I guess
"hardily" as a blend of "heartily" and "hardly" could be a nice
Freudianly-slippery adverb here.

Larry


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