Million words?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:54:34AM -0500, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Geoffrey Nunberg
> <nunberg at ischool.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >
> > There was another one of these just the other day in the National
> > Post. I've had a Google News alert out on this guy for a while and
> > have been making a point of writing to every journalist who cites him
> > to tell them that the man is a charlatan -- I want to see as a point
> > of interest whether it is in fact possible to bring a quack like this
> > down.
>
> Here's my latest contribution to the cause:
>
> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=972

Beautifully done, Ben.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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