TIPS

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Jul 3, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Dave Wilton wrote:

> And I addressed most of these in "Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic
> Urban
> Legends."

ah, good.  i'm away from my library, but i'll check it out soon.

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
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> Michael Quinion
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> Subject: Re: TIPS
>
>> it would be nice to have these assembled, with some discussion of the
>> history of each acronym (insofar as it is known), in a single
>> place. it
>> could even make an entertaining little book.
>
> Ahem, I treated most of them in my book, "Port Out, Starboard Home"
> (Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds on your side of the pond).

i recalled that you had some of them, but not that you had so many.
the score seems to be:

   6 of 8 from the Wikipedia entry (missing: git, news)
   1 of the 6 i added (missing: crud, daemon, gomer, hep, wog)
   4 of the 6 larry horn added (missing: grunt, pimp)
    0 of the 3 jon lighter just added (swag, pog(ue), pingers), all
of which were new to me

arnold

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