"ho ho ho" should be in the dictionary [was Re: Ho ho ho!]

[Wilson Gray]

On Jan 30, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: "ho ho ho" should be in the dictionary [was Re:  Ho
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> On Jan 30, 2005, at 9:01 AM, I wrote:
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>> arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu), noting that Poe's "The Bells"...
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> oops: *Pogue's* "The Bells".
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The Pogues made a recording of this? I did not know this. [Historical
note: The Pogues originally styled themselves as the "Pogue Mahone,"
until some Irish-speaking person pointed out to the English censors
that  the sound - though not the spelling, of course - "Pogue Mahone"
is a very close approximation of the Irish translation of "Kiss my
ass!"]

-Wilson