Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Dave Wilton]

It's in the Foreword, page xiv in my paperback edition (as if there is
another kind), but it's "ching," not "ka-ching."

"So if you're about to purchase this copy thinking it's about the Lord of
the Rings, then you'd better put it right back onto that big pile of
remainders where you found it. Oh, but you've already read this far, so that
must mean that--that you've already bought...oh dear...oh my...(Tote up
another one on the register, Jocko, 'Ching!'"

And a bit later on:

"And don't trouble yourself too much if you don't laugh at what you are
about to read, for if you perk up your pink little ears, you may hear the
silvery tinkling of merriment in the air, far, far away....It's us, buster.
Ching!"


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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 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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