screed = 'a deliberately and usu. disagreeably one-sided account; a work of propaganda'

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED does include the phr. "a lengthy discourse," but I agree that "screeds"
are most always in written form.

JL

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> On Jun 21, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> > Hmmm...I always thought screed referred specifically to a written work.
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> screed, screed, screed, eh, M Gide?
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