You Only Live Once - YOLO

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Mon Aug 27 05:01:48 UTC 2012


On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> I take a look at "YOLO" (possible WOTY candidate?) in my latest Boston
> Globe column, citing Garson on the history of the expanded expression.
>
> http://b.globe.com/yolobz

And here's my Word Routes followup on the Visual Thesaurus with
various stuff I didn't have room for in the Globe column:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/further-adventures-of-yolo/

--bgz

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