Prescriptive Linguists

[Mark Mandel]

Not a chance. That would have been shortly after the issue hit the stands.

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On Jan 31, 2008 10:44 PM, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> >I vividly recall seeing the "devil's fork" on the cover of _Mad_
> >magazine about 1970, possibly a little earlier, balanced on the
> >finger of Alfred E. Neuman.
> >
> >   I learned the name much later. Am not sure if _Mad_ called it
> >anything at all.
>
> I don't recall that it did, and I remember seeing it in an older
> issue of the mag back in my insufficienty misspent youth. OTOH, if
> you can remember about when you saw it, and in what, I can try to
> look it up in the complete CD-ROM of every issue of MAD up to
> sometime last year or so, which I happen to have sitting within reach
> here.
>
> James Harbeck.
>
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