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

[Dan Goncharoff]

Also, when you "vote early", you may also be "voting often", and that is
not cool.

DanG


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> As I suggested a while back, it's big on CNN.
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> When you "vote early," you're just voting.  Blah. When you "early-vote,"
> you're doing something cool and special.
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> JL
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> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu
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> > Rachel Maddow used the verb "to early-vote" and the past participle
> > "early-voted" many times in the week leading up to the election.
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> > Paul
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> > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
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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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