more new "old sayings"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Ben.

JL

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > BONUS: "is is...is"
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> > Ron Susskind to Howard Kurtz: "The fact is is, Howie, is that..."
> >
> > Stammer? Or straw in the wind? (It didn't sound like a classic stammer,
> but
> > that's only my opinion.)
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> Well spotted! I've posted about this on Language Log (with audio):
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> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3452
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> --bgz
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