"sucks" revisited

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Sticky consonants" is good.  I suppose they stick to your brain.

  JL
Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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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

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