malachy, malaky, malarkey?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 9/29/07, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
>
> > 1924 T. A. DORGAN in Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 2 Apr. 6 Malachy--you
> > said it.
>
> Can any of the Newspaper Archive experts find the 1924 syndicated TAD cartoon
> and confirm the Malachy spelling and describe or copy the drawing, please?

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/malachy.jpg

(I think it's actually on p. 11 of that issue of the Capital Times, not p. 6.)


--Ben Zimmer

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