[Ads-l] words connected to a single provenance

[Stephen Goranson]

As to what may or may not fit the request by Geoffrey Nunberg, whose example, infamy, came from a speech* (in a sentence), such may be up to him--yes, kemosahbee?


Stephen

*[My Mother (then a secretary in the Veterans Administration congressional liaison office) stood at the back of the House floor that Dec. 8.]

**

I’ve been trying to come up with words in more-or-less general use that are
associated with a single prominent historical or literary provenance —
not hapax legomena, but items like “infamy,” which for most people
who know it brings FDR’s Pearl Harbor speech to mind but which is used
in other contexts as well.

Geoff

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