halitosic

[Jonathan Lighter]

You win. I shoulda took Greek.

JL

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 11:05 AM -0500 1/13/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Halitosis is such a commonly known word that one is amazed not to find the
> >corresponding adj. "halitosic" in either MW11 or OED.
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> >Hundreds of raw Googlits.  What other word would do?
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> >JL
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> ...and my "halitotic" beats your "halitosic" 4 to 1, so it must be a
> better word.
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> LH
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