"Black Friday" on Word Routes

[Ben Zimmer]

My Word Routes column on the Visual Thesaurus rounds up the excellent
research on "Black Friday" that Bonnie Taylor-Blake has conducted, taking
the expression back to the early '60s in Philadelphia:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/3047/

This was picked up by NPR's Morning Edition, but unfortunately they didn't
credit Bonnie with the research:

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142767700/the-last-word-in-business

--bgz

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