Tonight's Colbert Report

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 1/10/06, Steve Kl. <stevekl at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Well, Michael Adams, you're officially on notice.
>
> For those of you in the west coast, be sure to catch the Colbert Report
> tonight --- and for those of you on the east coast, you can catch one of
> the repeats tomorrow. We get a full two minutes at the end of the show.
>
> (Mike, be prepared for mail! He read your work address at school on the
> air! [You have to see the show in context for this to make sense.]
>
> The URL for ADS wasn't given out, but the name "American Dialect Society"
> was mentioned several times.

I put up a transcription of the segment on the Language Log.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002752.html


--Ben Zimmer