halitosic

[Joel S. Berson]

Are you guys quoting your searches?  I get a million+ hits for
"halitositic" too, but when quoted about 18.  "halitostic" about
22.   "halitoxic" about 207.  ("halitosic" about 684.  "halitotic"
about 2770.  Larry still wins.)

Joel

At 1/13/2011 02:03 PM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>"Halitostic" also gets a million+ Google hits, about the same as
>Jonathan's "halitosic" but fewer than Larry's "halitotic."
>
>--Charlie
>
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>Jonathan Lighter [wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM]
>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:54 PM
>
>Not that OED has "halitotic" either.
>
>A better word yet would be "halitoxic," but that only gets 220 hits and none
>in the OED.
>JL
>
>On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Lighter
><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >> >
> >> >Hundreds of raw Googlits.  What other word would do?
> >> >
> >> >JL
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> ...and my "halitotic" beats your "halitosic" 4 to 1, so it must be a
> >> better word.
> >>
> >> LH
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