"burlone"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/28/2008 02:04 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>On Sep 27, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>>At 9/27/2008 12:16 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>
>>>Being somewhat naive, I don't know where to look for this in English
>>>utterances, other than to say urbandictionary doesn't have it.  Nor
>>>does the OED.
>>
>>Nor, apparently, does Language Log.
>
>in our defense, i should point out that Language Log doesn't propose
>to be a reference work.  there's a high degree of randomness in what
>gets posted about.

I wasn't attacking -- just trying to see, superficially, if anyone
thought "burlone" was sufficiently English to rate mention.

Joel

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