Book on Origin of New York City's Nickname "The Big Apple"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Congratulations are due to Jerry and Barry for updating their meticulous
research on one of America's most legendary and needlessly "controversial"
slang terms.

It's nice to see this and Allen Metcalf's book on OK appearing at the same
time.

JL

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>wrote:

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> The link is:
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> Michael Newman wrote, Tue 1/25/2011 12:28 PM:
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> Why not post the link to the new edition. Any google search leads you to =
> the old one.
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> Michael Newman
> Associate Professor of Linguistics
> Queens College/CUNY
> michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu
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