[Ads-l] "Eephus" Not in OED

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 3 16:58:28 UTC 2015


On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>
> I see that the word "eephus," a semi-famous name for an unusual baseball
> pitch, is not in OED.  I get 359,000 hits for it on Google.

As we discussed in 2005...

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2005-July/051649.html

--bgz

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