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[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Chris F Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
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> I've heard about La Niña [the mailing list software will likely not
> preserve the tilde for some of you) for years. The Wikipedia entry
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a) was created in 2002.

OED's got it back to 1981.


--Ben Zimmer

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