supercalif... redux

[Herb Stahlke]

Is Hamp unique in noting--in print--that the word is actually two
words?  Seems an opportunity for a little public linguistic education.

Herb

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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>> My latest Boston Globe column digs more deeply into the history of the
>> word:
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>> http://b.globe.com/supercali
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>> 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:
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>> 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.
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> Here's the Word Routes followup:
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> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/3232/
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