twoth

[Hillary Brown]

Right, but those hits are for the meaning associated with the number two, as
opposed to the combination of twee and goth that the link discusses.
hb

On Jan 17, 2008 12:03 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

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> At 11:42 AM -0500 1/17/08, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> >At 1/17/2008 11:27 AM, Hillary Brown wrote:
> >>New word (to me, anyway):
> >>http://hipstersprogress.blogspot.com/2008/01/introducing-twoth.html
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> >Thank heaven this is not likely to lead to oneth and thirdth.
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> No, no:  it's *threeth*!
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> (And it's too late to head it off completely--2150 g-hits.  Of course
> this is the sort of over-regularization bound to come up in kids'
> speech, so at least you can complain that it sounds childish.)
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> LH
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