American Speech Table of Contents for A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage: 1 December 2007; Vol. 82, No. 4

[Charles Doyle]

Here my question: Why does Richard Bailey's review of the _Yale Book of Quotations_ in _American Speech_ abbreviate the title as "YBC"?

--Charlie
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>Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:45:50 -0500
>From: Grant Barrett <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG>
>Subject: American Speech Table of Contents for A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage: 1 December 2007; Vol. 82, No. 4
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>A new issue of American Speech has been made available:
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>A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage: 1 December 2007; Vol. 82, No. 4
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>URL: http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/vol82/issue4/?etoc
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>CONTRIBUTORS' COLUMN
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>      American Speech 2007;82 np
>      http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/82/4/np?etoc
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>SIZE MATTERS
>      Michael Adams
>      American Speech 2007;82 339-340
>      http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/82/4/339?etoc
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>GULLAH NEGATION: A VARIABLE ANALYSIS
>      Tracey L. Weldon
>      American Speech 2007;82 341-366
>      http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/
>82/4/341?etoc
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>VOWEL DURATION IN THREE AMERICAN ENGLISH DIALECTS
>      Ewa Jacewicz, Robert A. Fox, and Joseph Salmons
>      American Speech 2007;82 367-385
>      http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/
>82/4/367?etoc
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>LIKE AND LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY: DISENTANGLING FACT FROM FICTION
>      Alexandra D'Arcy
>      American Speech 2007;82 386-419
>      http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/
>82/4/386?etoc
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>AMONG THE NEW WORDS
>      Wayne Glowka, Sarah Wyatt Swanson, Susan Presley, David K.
>Barnhart,
>      and Grant Barrett
>      American Speech 2007;82 420-437
>      http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/82/4/420?etoc
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>Reviews
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>QUOTATIONS AND CULTURE: The Yale Book of Quotations
>      Richard W. Bailey
>      American Speech 2007;82 438-442
>      http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/82/4/438?etoc
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>AMERICAN DIALECTS RENDERED ACCESSIBLE: American Voices: How Dialects
>Differ
>from Coast to Coast
>      Mark Mabbett
>      American Speech 2007;82 442-444
>      http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/82/4/442?etoc
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