gaydirt -- new word?

[Steve Kl.]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Laurence Horn wrote:

> We had a thread on "gaydar" some years ago.  I don't recall coming
> across "(flying) under the gaydar" for someone not yet outed, though.
> Pretty clever, I thought. And then there's the question of the name
> of the author of the above piece, although as Gregory Ward points out
> to me, it's probably not pronounced as in Bankone...

Speaking of mispronouncing bank names, Back when I was a word processor
using Dictaphone machinery, I routinelytyped out letters for an excutive
who pronounced "Comerica" as komm-uh-REE-kuh, instead of ko-MARE-uh-kuh.

-- Steve