[Ads-l] "Strategery" Not in OED

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

_New York Herald_ 2 Sep 1848 p 1 col 2
"As regards the free kirk worshippers, the present is a very hard case; for no kind of strategery will meet it, as the Duke is omnipotent."

_Louisvile [KY] Daily Courier_ 27 May 1856 p 1 col 6
"There is a science of strategery in polemics as well as in war."

Raleigh NC _Daily State Journal_ 10 Nov 1863 p 2 col 3 (reprinted from Winchester GA _Bulletin_ of 24 Oct 1863)
"And finally, the troops under his command, no matter what others may say, witnessed his strategery before the last great battle."

_Los Angeles Times_ 30 Aug 1987 P B6 col 10 (South Bay Classified Ads section)
"If you have the above and can view marketing strategeries from a broad perspective as well as implement them on a day-to-day basis, please send your resume to:  Times Box G-095 LA, Calif. 90053"

_Chicago Tribune_ 11 Feb 1996 sec 6 p 9 col  2 [classified ad]
"Can you translate client needs into effective implementation strategeries using middle market accounting solutions?"


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> > On Jan 20, 2017, at 1:57 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> > The satirical word "strategery," introduced by Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live in 2000, is not in the OED.  It gets 245,000 hits when I
> search Google.
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> > Fred Shapiro
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> Well, 210 actual hits.  Still a bunch, but not that huge a number.  Those “about n results” estimates at the top of each page are still
> consistently off by a factor of hundreds or thousands.
> 
> LH

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