McDonald ’s tells Webster, “Take this McJob and shove it”
Benjamin Zimmer
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Thu Jun 7 20:21:37 UTC 2007
On 6/7/07, Dennis Baron <debaron at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> There's a new post on the Web of Language
>
> McDonald's tells Webster, "Take this McJob and shove it"
[snip]
> www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage
Is McDonald's still pestering Merriam-Webster about "McJob"? I thought
they gave up on that in 2003 and had recently redirected their
energies to the OED.
--Ben Zimmer
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