dogfooding

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 5, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Cf. "trying it out on the dog."
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> JL

Not to be confused with "putting on the dog".

LH
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> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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>> On Dec 4, 2011, at 10:30 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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>>> I spotted this one in news preview and, if it indeed originated with
>>> Microsoft, perhaps someone's already mentioned it. My apologies if this
>>> is a replication.
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>> posted on here:
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>> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/short-shot-31-dogfood/
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>> (but without any research on its origin)
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