"She came home to _early vote_." [NT]

Paul Frank paulfrank at POST.HARVARD.EDU
Sun Nov 11 04:42:44 UTC 2012


Rachel Maddow used the verb "to early-vote" and the past participle
"early-voted" many times in the week leading up to the election.

Paul

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> edited; quoted in TIME
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> on my blog:
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> AZ, 11/2/08: Early/absentee vote (the verbs):
>  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=795
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