The eschewing OED [Was: "taint", anatomical]
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Apr 13 15:56:31 UTC 2012
At 4/13/2012 11:16 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>slang collecting from every kind if source - including movies and
>humans, which OED used to eschew
Movies, at least from scripts, I gather are now chewed by the
OED. But humans, from purely oral utterances? Has the OED become
cannibalistic? (Or does "from ... humans" mean the WWW?)
Gesundheit,
Joel
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