[Ads-l] pinch a loaf

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 28, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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> HDAS, s.v. loaf.  From 1991.
> 
> --Charlie

...where we also learn, from a later cite (the first two being from classic early 90s TV shows, "In Living Color" (1991) and "Beavis and Butthead" (1993)), that the plural of this particular loaf is regularized:

"Birds...pinch loafs on people"

JL assures us that we can find that one by pulling a copy of the unpublished 1994 edition of the Ensucklopedia down from our shelf.  At least the loafs pinched in the latter case are small ones--a case where half a loaf is better than one.

LH


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> I see this on Wiktionary (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wiktionary.org_wiki_pinch-5Fa-5Floaf&d=AwIFAw&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=MMum67lMt8hs0EWzxvxTuMJuG1EXzZlzXX-176Yp-og&s=ECANgyxWDwiJgc2ifGKUAfK_lrjpHIs4X-Qs34PIRkE&e= ) =
> but not on the Oxford Dictionary site. No idea how long it=E2=80=99s =
> been around, but it=E2=80=99s not new.
> 
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA=
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