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[Laurence Urdang]

I never said there was a problem of interpretation, only of parsing the word as an adjective.
  L. Urdang

"Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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On Aug 2, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 8/2/2007 07:38 PM, Alice Faber wrote:
>> I had a similar reaction when I first encountered the "Awesome
>> Blossom"
>> fried onion appetizer at one of those interchangeable chain
>> restaurants...
>
> Did "they" do "Ahsum Blahsum" or "Awsum Blawsum"? (I couldn't and
> wouldn't do either! says a New Yorker by youth.)

at the closest Chili's (in Menlo Park CA) it's the former, or "Awsum
Blahsum", depending on which server you get. no doubt there are
places where it's the latter.

cf. "more rock, less talk!"

arnold

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