YBQ Review in American Speech

[Baker, John]

        I knew my name was going to come up.  YBK is for Yale BooK.  No
need to add Of Quotations, what other Yale BooK would there be?


John Baker


-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Jesse Sheidlower
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 10:07 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: YBQ Review in American Speech

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:01:52AM -0500, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>
> And then John Baker has admitted to a tendency to type YBK instead of
> YBQ (for Yale Book of Kwotations, no doubt).

I just say "Fred's book".

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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