Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

I believe that _ka-ching!_ appears on the blurb page of Beard & Kenney's
_Bored of the Rings_ (1969), a significant antedating.

If memory serves.

JL

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> On May 1, 2012, at 7:03 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> > ADS-L should issue a keyboard macro for "I should have checked
> > OED/HDAS/the archives".
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> add: DARE, MWDEU, Green's Dictionary
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> and, for that matter, other less specialized dictionaries.  "ka-ching" is
> in both NOAD and AHD.
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> arnold
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