[Ads-l] "bickerments"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Time to trademark BickerMints, "for those close face-to-face disputes"...

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 1:30 AM GEOFFREY NUNBERG <nunbergg at gmail.com> wrote:

> From the SF Chron, June 12:
>
> [Klay] Thompson, either via a slip of the tongue or because of his deep
> knowledge of obsolete English terms, also dropped an amazing word into his
> explanation of the team's occasional squabbles. "Guys get into small
> bickerments," he said. http://tinyurl.com/ybqbu3zg
> The writer had obviously never heard the word before, nor had I, but it
> turns out that it’s out there: http://tinyurl.com/y8zqv3dg
>
> Geoff
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