[Ads-l] the unhappy hazards of English

[Jonathan Lighter]

There once was a fellow named Lazarus,
Whose fate might be reckoned haphazerous.
First he was dead;
Then he rose up and said,
"It's all thanks to Jesus of Nazerous!"

JL


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Sep 15, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Whatever happened to "haphazard"?
> >
> > DanG
>
> Doesn’t look adjective-y enough.  Better slap on an -ous ending to be on
> the safe side.  Works for “hazardous” after all.
>
>
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> A student, commenting on the seemingly random placement of windows on a
> >> campus building, identified the configuration as "haphazerous."
> Obviously
> >> she meant to say "haphazardous."
> >>
> >>
> >> --Charlie
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