Secret OED files uncovered

[Dan Goodman]

Lynne Murphy wrote:
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> In British English, this even has a name:  the silly season.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season>
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> Lynne
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Also in American English, though it may not be used much these days.
 From the Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base (http://isfdb.org)

*Title:* The Silly Season
*Author:* C. M. Kornbluth
<http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?C.%20M.%20Kornbluth>
*Year:* 1950
*Type:* SHORTFICTION
*Storylen:* shortstory
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*Variant Titles:*

    * /The Silly Season
      <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1041639>/ (1950) - Cyril
      M. Kornbluth
      <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Cyril%20M.%20Kornbluth>

*Awards:*

    * 2001 <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?Rh2001> - *The Silly
      Season* /Retro Hugo Award/, Short Story (/Nomination Below Cutoff/)

*Publications:*

*/The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fall 1950
<http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?FSFFal1950>/*, (Oct 1950, ed.
Anthony Boucher <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Anthony_Boucher>,
J. Francis McComas
<http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?J._Francis_McComas>, publ.
[long list of  reprinted appearances]

> --On den 10 augusti 2010 06:24 -0400 David Barnhart
> <dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:
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>> Dear Ben,
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>> So, what else is new; August is a slow month in the news business.
>>
>> DKB
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> Dr M Lynne Murphy
> Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
> Director of English Language and Linguistics
> School of English
> Arts B348
> University of Sussex
> Brighton BN1 9QN
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> phone: +44-(0)1273-678844
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