qvetch

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Fri Oct 2 15:53:10 UTC 2009


An unexpected spelling variant...

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"A qvetch-free journalism conference," Oct. 1, 2009
http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009/10/qvetch-free-journalism-conference.html
They said it couldn’t be done. But it was.
They said a conference about the future of journalism couldn’t take
place without the usual qvetching about the golden, olden days, with
publishers grieving shriveled margins and editors caviling about the
bloggers challenging their previously unassailable wisdom.
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--Ben Zimmer

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