'Top Words from 2007': _hybrid_, _surge_, _climate change_

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Mar 31 01:27:23 UTC 2008


NPR's people aren't stupid or yahoos. It might be fruitful for several of us
to write to them.

m a m

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> At 12:08 PM -0700 3/30/08, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
> >On Mar 30, 2008, at 9:36 AM, Damien Hall wrote:
> >
> >>NPR's _Weekend Edition Saturday_ yesterday had a little piece about
> >>the 'top
> >>words of 2007' as determined from their popularity in the media by
> >>Global
> >>Language Monitor LLC...
> >
> >oh christ, this is Paul J.J. Payack's outfit again.  search our
> >archives and Language Log's archives on "Payack".
> >
> >arnold
> >
> Well, as they say, Payack's...an itch.  To scratch or not to scratch,
> that is the question.
>
> LH
>
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