Balderdash and Piffle

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Tue Jan 17 23:41:32 UTC 2006


I just got a DVD of the "P" episode of Balderdash and Piffle, the BBC
television show about the OED/BBC wordhunt.  Fred Shapiro's antedating
of "ploughman's lunch" was featured quite prominently (and with some
small indignation that the citation is an American one!).

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