woozle effect

[Jonathan Lighter]

It was serendipitously discovered.

JL

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> 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.
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> * "On the Trail of the Scarlet AD."  Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Vol.
> 39, No. 1 (Spring 2013), 133--154.
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> Joel
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> At 9/18/2014 04:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >Not in OED.
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woozle_effect
> >
> >A valuable coinage.
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