UKer

[Jonathan Lighter]

It's just the old senility.

However, you now have three occurrences at your fingertips.

JL

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > Remember "USer"?
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> > Now I've heard "UKer."
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> Is this an annual occurrence? :->
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