[Ads-l] rando

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Sat Dec 9 17:22:23 UTC 2017


I wrote about "rando" (with input from Connie Eble and her students at UNC)
in a 2010 "On Language" column.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage-t.html


On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> David Swerdlick, CNN:
>
> "We're not talking about some *rando* here. We're talking about someone who
> was the deputy district attorney."
>
> UrbanD has exx. back to 2003.
>
>

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