courie(d)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

A Language Log commenter recently complained of "courie" as a back-formation
of "courier":

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1573#comment-36347

Having trouble finding many examples of bare "courie", but "couried" is
well-attested online, especially from writers in Australia and New Zealand:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bcouried+(site%3Aau+|+site%3Anz)


--Ben Zimmer

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