new words: gaycism

[Wilson Gray]

The first thing that came to my mind was John Wayne Gayce. Different
strokes, to coin a phrase.

-Wilson

On 3/20/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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