[Ads-l] WOTY 2017!

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Kompromat" isn't in OED , though it's certainly been used prominently (as
what they used to call a "denizen") in English for at least the past couple
of days.

JL

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:58 AM, imwitty <imwitty at gmail.com> wrote:

> You mean ADS should have some Russian subsection? (;'-)))
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> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:50 PM, Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
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