wung it

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, M Covarrubias <mcovarru at purdue.edu> wrote:
>
> brian williams on letterman, talking about obama's oath:
>
> "Chief Justice Roberts just kinda wung it"

Coincidentally, "wung it" came up recently in a Language Log comment:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1044#comment-20096

(Unless Brian Williams has been reading LL, where we've also had much
discussion of the oath flub...)


--Ben Zimmer

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