jimmies photo

[Amy West]

On 12/12/12 12:02 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:18:03 -0500
> From:    Ben Zimmer<bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
> Subject: Re: jimmies photo
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>> >
>> >On Dec 11, 2012, at 6:58 AM, Arnold Zwicky<zwicky at STANFORD.EDU>  wrote:
>> >
>>> >>fwiw, Just Born is the company that makes marshmallow Peeps.
>> >
>> >and information/speculation about "jimmies" in the Wikipedia article on "sprinkles":
>> >
>> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinkles
> I used "jimmies" as an example of corporate etymythology in an On
> Language column on the topic (citing Dave Wilton's "Word Myths"):
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/magazine/02FOB-onlanguage-t.html
>
> --bgz
I'm just glad that now I have a better "non-dialectal" term for them
courtesy of this photo: "chocolate grains."

---Amy West

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