Heard: "I have _ramped_ and raved!" [NT]
Douglas G. Wilson
douglas at NB.NET
Sun Dec 23 22:11:27 UTC 2012
On 12/23/2012 3:51 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> about her hair and she won for her hair!
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Google Books apparently has 41 examples of "ramped and raved", 36 of
"ramped and raged", 3 of "ramped and ranted".
MW3 shows "ramp and rage" in a citation exemplifying the verb "ramp".
-- Doug Wilson
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