"quiet deploration"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Quiet decimation.

JL

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 7/21/2010 02:03 PM, George Thompson wrote:
> >When Thoreau said that lexicographers lead lives of quiet
> >deploration, he had it about right.
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> A Google hapax legomenon, at this instant.  For "quiet deploration",
> no Google Web hits, and one Google Books hit, dated by it 1988.
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> Joel
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