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[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>>
>> My question is whether the error was Friedman's or an editor's, and,
>> if Friedman's, why didn't an editor catch it.
>
> Let's not blame an editor for this. As it happens, Friedman's used the
> expression before (I forgot Mark Liberman posted about it on Language
> Log last year):
>
> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3157

I let Mark know about Friedman's latest usage, and he's got a Language
Log followup (with a contest!):

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3754

--bgz

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