Taboo avoidance of the day

[victor steinbok]

It is not every day that you get to see tertiary avoidance in practice!

VS-)

On 3/14/10, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> ... Nor did he stint, as The Times of London said in its
> review of the book, in his use of 'the Anglo-Saxon tetragram' to
> recount the proceedings."
>
> *(Lovely second-order avoidance of the F-bomb.)*

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