Tenny Runners (tennis shoes) (1965)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Also HDAS II.

  JL

Barnhart <barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:
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American Dialect Society writes:
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>Poster: "Arnold M. Zwicky"
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>On Sep 22, 2006, at 11:50 AM, i wrote:
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>> ... my ozzie son-in-law reports
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>i meant "aussie". pronounced "ozzie".
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>arnold
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See The Barnhart Dictionary Companion (Vol. 5.3-4, c1989) for an entry for
Oz meaning Aus.

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