From today's NYT

[Wilson Gray]

Good ones, Ben.

-Wilson

On 1/18/08, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Jan 18, 2008 5:47 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The speaker quoted is the publisher of the Roanoke, AL, People's Voice
> > African-American Weekly News:
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> > "Those [black voters] that _might would consider_ voting for Barack ..."
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> More primary-season double modals here:
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> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005153.html
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> > I've also come across an example of "baby-mama" ([sic] it was at the
> > line break, so there was no way to tell whether the writer might not
> > have had in mind "babymama") in print, but I've carelessly managed to
> > lose it. It was in either the NYT or the Boston Globe.
>
> Here's one from today's Globe:
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> http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2008/01/18/wedding_bell_blues_take_a_toll_on_27_dresses/
> Heigl has a regular part on TV's "Grey's Anatomy," and her first movie
> since playing Seth Rogen's baby mama in "Knocked Up" is "27 Dresses,"
> a sporadically entertaining cupcake of a movie.
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> --Ben Zimmer
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