"What's not to love?"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Oct 1 12:50:25 UTC 2014


Yinglisher and Yinglisher…  (Notwithstanding the attempt at Cliffordization.)

LH

On Oct 1, 2014, at 7:19 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:

> The 1949 use of "What's not to like?" was written by Eth Clifford, pen name of Ethel Rosenberg. That's Ethel Clifford Rosenberg (born in NYC Dec. 25, 1915), not to be confused with Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (born in NYC Sept. 25, 1915 and executed in 1953).
> 
> "Julius, with his jokes," his sister says....
> "You like him," Mrs. Bender states.
> "I like him," Mrs. Rivkin agrees. "What's not to like?"
> 
> 
> Stephen Goranson
> http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/
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