woozle effect

[Joel S. Berson]

JL, thanks for calling attention to this!  I've been meaning to write 
an article or two about this effect (in fact, I've already published 
one*), or perhaps its subset where the initial publication is 
factually incorrect, and now I know what word to use in its title.

* "On the Trail of the Scarlet AD."  Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Vol. 
39, No. 1 (Spring 2013), 133--154.

Joel

At 9/18/2014 04:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>Not in OED.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woozle_effect
>
>A valuable coinage.

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