new words: gaycism

[Laurence Horn]

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

Wasn't he Gacy, or maybe Gacey?  It was back when all trendy serial
killers had to have "Wayne" as their middle names.

LH

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