As heard on TV:

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 22 07:55:09 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> "as-seen-on-tv product(s)" / "as seen on tv product(s)" gets over a million.

I was looking only at instances in which "as-seen-on-TV" had escaped
from that semi-fixed phrase, as in "AsSeenOnTV.com" or "Save On As
Seen On TV at Walmart As Seen On TV," wherein "as seen on TV" is, for
all practical purposes, a noun.

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