Slang a la the NYT

[David Daniel]

On 10/5/2014 12:49 PM, David Daniel wrote:
> I liked her NYT article on slang, then went on to check out the blog and
> almost immediately, like in line 4, was horrified to see: "...if I lay
down
> on the living room floor..." WTF? World-renowned lexicographer and
language
> writer uses lay for lie? So I decided that whatever else she had to say
was
> probably tainted and I lost interest and stopped reading. Sigh.
--

>Me too. I was like "Whoa, dude, ...."

>-- Doug Wilson

Exactamundo.
DAD



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