'word' words

[Hillary Brown]

Coffee cafe is one of my favorites.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:

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> Geoffrey S. Nathan wrote:
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> > Just one more...
> > Something that strikes me as indescribably goyish:
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> > Challah bread
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> > seen in many stores throughout the country (although, of course, challah
> > is monomorphemic, so it's semantically, rather than morphologically
> > redundant).  Kind of like 'baguette bread' (not that I've actually seen
> > that one, although Google returns >64K results for 'baguette bread
> recipe').
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> "Fiction novel"
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> And what's the term for "Coffee and Expresso?"  That shows up on gas
> station signs in Minneapolis.
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