"[T]he whole nine-yards" (July, 1956)

[Ben Zimmer]

I've written up Bonnie's discovery for my Word Routes column on the
Visual Thesaurus:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/stretching-out-the-whole-nine-yards/

--bgz

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake
<b.taylorblake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For the next two weeks, a PDF of the July, 1956 sighting of "the whole
> nine-yards" in *Kentucky Happy Hunting Ground* will be available at
> the following URL.
>
> http://www.med.unc.edu/uploads/hmbfj.july1956.pdf
>
> I have received permission from the editorial offices of *Kentucky
> Afield* (part of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife
> Resources) to share these images and to post them online.

--
Ben Zimmer
http://benzimmer.com/

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