"pig" as policeman

[Laurence Horn]

>WAG?

Wild-assed guess.  Sorry--I thought that was established usage on the list...

LH

>
>In Britain, WAGs are the wives and girlfriends of famous football
>players.
>
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>--- Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>>  I wasn't making up the notion that the 20th century began with the
>>  assassination of Archduke Ferdinand; I don't know if others have
>>  claimed that the 21st began on 9/11/01, that was just a WAG.
>
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