"Black Friday" on Word Routes

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:

> 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/

What a great analysis, Ben.  Many thanks for putting that column
together and for getting the word out about the true origin of the
day's nickname.

-- Bonnie

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