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The evidence needs no advocate, but what does it advocate for? Not much of anything, as Larry's example deftly demonstrates.

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On Feb 6, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Found in a few seconds:
>
> 1995 W. L. Heflin, M. K. B. Edwards, & T. F. Heffernan _Herman Melville's
> Whaling Years_ (Nashville: Vanderbilt U.P.) 114: March was a stormy month,
> squally, rugged, or rainy more than half the time.
>
> Quoting from the 1841 log of the _Acushet_, the authors cite a day "rugged
> with rain" and "rugged weather + squally" (77).
>
> This evidence needs no advocate.
>
> JL
>
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> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> At 10:00 AM -0500 2/6/11, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
>>> Thanks to Paul for doing this research.
>>>
>>> A separate entry for "rugged weather" still seems like overkill to
>>> me. Anyone could figure out the meaning of "rugged weather" from the
>>> other definition in the same way that one could figure out "rugged
>>> toilet training" or "rugged oral exam". But I bow to the
>>> professional opinion of AMERICAN HERITAGE--if this isn't something
>>> they put in to see if other dictionary makers plagiarized their
>>> triviality.
>>>
>>> If they took this out, they would have room for "snood"!
>>>
>>
>> I demand a separate subentry for external hard drives.  My "LaCie
>> Rugged Hard Disk" is officially (according to the box) an
>> "All-Terrain Hard Disk".  I assume that unrugged external drives are
>> only capable of proceeding on ordinary paved roads or desks.
>>
>> LH
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