[Ads-l] YouTubery: "I guess you never heard of a _wheelbarrel_."

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 19, 2019, at 11:00 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:58:11AM -0400, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>> 
>>> I was asked about this when I was doing the Word of the Day site at Random House, so many years ago:
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>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20011214023332/http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19960725
>>> 
>> 
>> 'The only thing you can do to avoid such problems is education: make sure that people, whether they're your friends with "wheelbarrel" or the marketing department of a fancy cosmetics company with “smooth[e]”, know what the truth is. They'll thank you for it.’
>> 
>> …or not
> 
> (That was a private joke.)
> 
Yup, I just wanted to save others from possible relationship hazards.  
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