thesp
Victor Steinbok
aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Mar 10 22:02:33 UTC 2012
Perhaps I'm late noticing this, but this seems to be one of the newsy
shortenings: thespian-->thesp
http://goo.gl/9sGZn
Entertainment gossip reporters love speaking in code--mostly cut up
words, not anything innovative. I guess, they think it makes them sound hip.
VS-)
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