OT (sort of): in a couple weeks

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yesterday a CNN reporter spoke of people who will "early-vote."

JL

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> On Oct 27, 2012, at 2:19 PM, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM>
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> > Perhaps the ridiculous volume of e-mail will subside once election day
> has
> > passed.  _Early voting_ -- the casting of an _early vote_ by an  is an
> > _early voter_ is linguistically interesting as dictionaries don't appear
> to
> > have entered these terms.  Must do more searching.
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> I've added those to Wiktionary, though I'm not completely satisfied with
> the wording.
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> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA
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