OED odds and ends
Victor Steinbok
aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jun 29 21:50:19 UTC 2012
"Impact wrench" not in OED, but it does show up in a quote under
"teleoperator":
> 1966 IEEE Trans. Nuclear Sci. 13 15/1 A remotely controlled impact
> wrench would be another example of a teleoperator.
"Pooh Bah" excepts no spelling variations, although "poobah" is far more
common today. "Grand Poobah" is not in OED at all, however spelled.
VS-)
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