Paul Harvey and language

[Ben Zimmer]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:10 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
> >
> > This new idea *coined* '*Reaganomics*' was that the poor would now provide
> > > for the rich.
> >
> > There are so many of these that I see no point tracking the links. I, for
> > one, find this bizarre.
>
> Quease-making yes, but not bizarre. I've heard this usage on TV news more
> than once within the past, say, three to five years.

JL noted this usage in Oct. 2006, and Grant Barrett pointed to a blog
entry he'd written about it earlier that year:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0610B&L=ADS-L&m=52654&P=7459
http://www.doubletongued.org/coined

--bgz

--
Ben Zimmer
http://benzimmer.com/

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org