lipstick on a pig

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> I just wrote this up as a Slate "Explainer":
>
> http://www.slate.com/id/2199805/
>
> Space didn't allow for acknowledgments of ADS-L assistance, so thanks
> to those who helped out.

Here's some followup with due crediting.

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1526/


--Ben Zimmer

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