[Ads-l] WOTD
Dennis During
dcduring at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 13 23:29:01 UTC 2018
Apparently there are enough self-published authors in Google books to
provide three "durably archived" citations of the term in use, sufficient
for inclusion in Wiktionary. See
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abydocomist#Noun
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> Large protest sign in London:
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> YOU, SIR, ARE
> AN UNCONSCIONABLE ABYDOCOMIST!
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> Not in OED.
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> 1800 hits.
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> JL
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