effort, v.

[Jonathan Lighter]

That would be just as dumb.

Dumber.

JL

"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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Or is that a mistranscription of "afford"?

At 9/2/2005 03:27 PM, you wrote:
>2002 Chicago Tribune 9 Sept. I. 7/1 Can we effort to root out
> terrorists in the Middle East and yet give short shrift to
> terrorists here in the homeland?
>
>For example.
>
>Jesse Sheidlower
>OED


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