[Ads-l] groj sale

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 23, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Saw, for the first time, a sign for a groj sale yesterday. “Groj sale” gets 12K raw Google hits but is not in Wiktionary or the online Oxford dictionaries.
> 
Or 129 actual g-hits, which is still more than I’d have thought.  I wondered if this respelling just occurred in this collocation, so I googled “in the garage” and found just 32 actual hits, so maybe there’s been a loss of transparency for some with “garage sale”, given that there’s often no garage involved.  “Grojband” gets 130 actual g-hits, but that’s mostly because of the eponymous animated series.  

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