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[Wilson Gray]

Well, it's not as old and stale as ten-year-old "warmist," at least,
another new-to-me word likewise encountered for the first time only today.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > "Gun-Nut 2nd-Amendments Wife to Death"
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> Nancy Friedman has nominated the verbified "second amendment" in the
> Most Creative category for WOTY 2014:
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> http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2014/12/words-of-the-year-2014-fritinancy-edition.html
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> She traces the usage to Dan Savage:
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> http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/03/12/two-year-old-second-amendments-himself-to-death
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