[Ads-l] groj sale

[Barretts Mail]

I didn’t know about Grojband. Wikipedia says it first aired in 2013. Here’s a “groj sale” sign with a date of 2012:

http://www.rlcrabb.com/groj-sale/ <http://www.rlcrabb.com/groj-sale/>

Regardless of which came first, the fact that there’s a series will lead people to use it.

BB

> On 23 Apr 2017, at 07:41, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> 
>> On Apr 23, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> 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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