Generalized Whore

[Benjamin Barrett]

I get 1350 hits if I leave off the indefinite article. I generally use it
because it increases the likelihood of relevant hits, though it drastically
cuts down on the number of actual hits. BB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Benjamin Zimmer
>
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:34:20 -0400, Benjamin Zimmer
> <bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:
>
> >Benjamin Barrett wrote:
> >>
> >> "A clothes whore" gets no fewer than 332 Googits, [snip]
>
> (I get 1,330 hits, by the way.)