halitosic

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:37 PM -0500 1/13/11, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>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

"Halitoxic" sounds less like a synonym and more like the extreme form
of the condition...

LH

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>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]
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>>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:
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>>>  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
>>>>  >
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>>>>  ...and my "halitotic" beats your "halitosic" 4 to 1, so it must be a
>>>>  better word.
>>>>
>>>>  LH
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