Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue May 1 16:07:38 UTC 2012


I'll look for my copy, Charlie.  It's here somewhere.

JL

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> I'm not sure why, but I have that book (paperback) in my office.  I don't
> fnd "ka-ching!" on the blurb page.  Perhaps different editions or different
> printings include different blurbs?
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> --Charlie
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> I believe that _ka-ching!_ appears on the blurb page of Beard & Kenney's
> _Bored of the Rings_ (1969), a significant antedating.
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> If memory serves.
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> JL
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> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
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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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