the early days of "baloney"

[Ben Zimmer]

My new Word Routes column is on how "baloney" came to mean "nonsense"
in the 1920s -- including some freshly discovered examples from
newspaper articles and comic strips:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/how-baloney-got-phony/

--bgz

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Ben Zimmer
http://benzimmer.com/

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