baby bump [was: conceptionmoon]

[Amy West]

Congrats! Jan Freeman mentioned your new baby in a column in the
Boston Globe a couple weeks ago. Along with mention of "cookie" as
one of your AmE -> BrE words.

---Amy West

>Date:    Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:57:47 -0500
>From:    Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at SUSSEX.AC.UK>
>Subject: Re: baby bump [was: conceptionmoon]
>
>'Baby bump' was the BrE-to-AmE Word of the Year on my blog just a few weeks
>ago:
>
><http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2008/01/2007s-words-of-year.html>
>
>(Complete with an illustration of mine from a couple of months ago...)
>
>Lynne

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