supercalif... redux

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> My latest Boston Globe column digs more deeply into the history of the
> word:
>
> http://b.globe.com/supercali
>
> It turns out that the elusive Syracuse cite was from the student
> newspaper, the Daily Orange, not from a humor magazine. A clipping of
> the 1931 article was in the Merriam-Webster archives, and the folks in
> Springfield graciously shared it with me:
>
> http://cache.boston.com/multimedia/2012/04/ideas/supercalif.pdf
>
> I'll have more on this in my Word Routes column on
> VisualThesaurus.com/Vocabulary.com tomorrow.

Here's the Word Routes followup:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/3232/

--bgz

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