"bait and switch" on Language Log

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sun Jan 30 20:42:24 UTC 2005


On Jan 30, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Larry Horn addressed me:

> Thanks for the pub.  Did I really say that Paul Krugman and other
> administration critics were "font of" the _bait and switch_
> construction?  Yes, as the archives reveal, I surely did. Argle
> bargle.
>
> Larry, who's font of Times New Roman but has a crush on Comic Sans MS

oh crap.  i should have silently corrected that, but i didn't catch it.
i'll fix it now.

for about a minute, my previous LL posting was out there on the web
under the title "Contaminating identies".

arnold, erroneous



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