guesstimate (was Paul Harvey and language)

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Online Etymology Dictionary appears to claim that the verb form of
> guesstimate was used by 1902 and the noun form by 1906. OED and
> Merriam-Webster have later dates.
>

Oddly, as of this very moment, _guesstimate_ as a verb is, for me,
*still* non-occurrent. I could become accustomed to it, I reckon, just
as I've become accustomed to hearing that gross obscenity of my youth,
"tap that ass," used as a throw-away phrase on prime-time TV.:-)

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