New "-dar" word?

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sat Oct 9 04:39:05 UTC 2004


On Oct 8, 2004, at 7:05 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> The comedian Judy Gold used "Jewdar" on her Comedy Central special
> tonight, 10/08/04.

i mentioned the -dar thing in my seminar on syntactic variation
yesterday, and immediately one of the students (who's jewish) piped up,
"oh, you mean, like jewdar?"  it seemed absolutely everyday to this
student.

arnold



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