"sucks" revisited

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 8/6/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Without the aid of Ron Butters' scholarship, but reaching essentially
> the same conclusions:
>
> Seth Stevenson's defense of "sucks", at
> http://slate.com/id/2146866

FWIW, the author contacted me and I sent along Ron Butters' 2001
_Dictionaries_ article, as well as links to ADS-L discussions last
year on the topic. Didn't make the final cut, I guess.


--Ben Zimmer

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