peened

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> "peen"

Does anyone else recall "[ball]pein [hammer]" as the preferred
spelling of the "Sears 'n' Roebuck" - as we referred to it, down home
- catalogue? At one time, I considered _peen_ to be a dumbing-down.
However, I've been neutral on that point for dekkids, now.

(I was going to make up some asinine joke about ballpeen hammers.
Fortunately, I read the article first. Youneverknow.)

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