"write," n. = "something intended to be read; a writing."

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Jon Lighter wrote:

> ...  The chosen adjective makes all the difference.  I remember
> "read" blossoming in the early '60s.

or you started noticing it then, maybe because you came across
several occurrences close to one another.  to find out if it actually
blossomed then, and blossomed especially among reviewers, we'd have
to some fairly tedious research.

> Reviewers used it fairly indiscriminately.   (Or
> "indiscriminantly" : 70,000 raw Googlits.)

i used to associate it with british usage.  and that's consistent
with the trend of the OED's cites, but then that might just reflect a
british sampling bias in the dictionary.

arnold

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