[Ads-l] WOTY candidate
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Aug 29 22:33:18 UTC 2017
How about "cone of uncertainty"?
Originally a mystery flavor at Baskin-Robbins.
JL
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:
> Since nobody else has nominated it:
>
> Path of totality
>
> (OK, it’s a noun phrase, but we’ve had less wordy words in the past—if
> “Mother of all ___” can be a word, so can “path of totality”.)
>
> LH
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