[Ads-l] "Strategery" Not in OED

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jan 22 22:58:23 UTC 2017


Could it have been based on a Bush mispronounciation *[sic]*?

Mark Mandel


On Jan 20, 2017 1:57 PM, "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

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.


Fred Shapiro

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