today's CNN miscellany

[Jonathan Lighter]

I wasn't suggesting that "rock on" is essentially new, but in the past I've
heard it only in the imperative.

Baseball was simply the subject of the next story.

Similarly, "topper" used to mean a top hat (OED 1820-1905). Not headgear in
general. The HDAS files can probably antedate this, but I'm too indolent to
look.

JL

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>wrote:

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> The plural of "hypothesis" is "hypotheses," which sounds like
> "hypothesies," and a singular derived from
> that latter plural would be "hypothesy" (like "baby/babies").
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> Gerald Cohen
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> Joel S. Berson, Sun 4/22/2012 4:29 PM wrote:
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> At 4/22/2012 04:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > From a CNN anchor:
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> >"That's one hypothesy." Hypothesis.
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> Heresy, as applied to some other CNN anchor's belief?  Or, I suppose,
> just the singular of "hypothesis" (which ends in -s, of course).
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> Joel
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