Sympathy pounds (1998)

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Apr 24 12:49:13 UTC 2007


On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> Does OED or HDAS have an entry prepared for "sympathy pounds"? It's just a
> horrible, horrible term.

Assuming that I am interpreting this message correctly, congratulations to
Barry and his wife!

Fred Shapiro


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