Freeman's antedate of "turn a blind eye"

[Amy West]

Tangential to this, did Wilson post already about Freeman's
antedating of "turn a blind eye" in this past Sunday's column?

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2007/12/09/the_vision_thing/

---Amy West

>Date:    Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:36:29 -0500
>From:    "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>Subject: "How Dictionaries Define Publicity: The Word of the Year"
>
>At
>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/business/media/10oxford.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>"How Dictionaries Define Publicity: The Word of the Year"
>
>NYTimes, today.  Publicity for Ben Zimmer and the American Dialect
>Society (its Web site).
>
>Of course, Jan Freeman of the Boston Globe is quoted as saying "I
>can't help thinking that 10 weeks of WOTY fever is about eight weeks
>more than anyone wants."
>
>Joel

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