Horn on Rummy's last throe

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:32:49 -0700, Arnold M. Zwicky
<zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

>Larry Horn's posting here on Rumsfeld and the "last throe" has now
>made it onto the Language Log:
>
>   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002282.html

Jon Stewart had an entertaining segment on "The Daily Show" about the
semantic kerfuffle over "last throe(s)". The clip can be downloaded here:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/06/27.html#a3668


--Ben Zimmer