"unsuck"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3099
>>

"... the earliest known example ..."


That should read,

"... earliest-known _literary_ example... "

Else, a person could get the impression that this particular use of
_suck_ originated with James Blake in 1963, when, in fact, the use
didn't originate with Blake and no one can possibly know when or with
or among whom the use originated.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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