"Graf"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've seen it spelled as"graph" only, but I've encountered it a number of times.

  JL

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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The term "graf," I guess, is journalistese for "paragraph." I don't see
it in the OED or Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate. Is this a fairly
common word that has eluded the dictionaries?

Fred Shapiro


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