[Ads-l] "Strategery" Not in OED

[Peter Reitan]

The omission was a strategeric decision.
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The satirical word "strategery," introduced by Will Ferrell on Saturday Nig=
ht Live in 2000, is not in the OED.  It gets 245,000 hits when I search Goo=
gle.


Fred Shapiro

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