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Mark Mandel mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 21 02:35:56 UTC 2019


Mushmelons?

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 12:12 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> Don’t harsh my melons.
>
> > On Apr 20, 2019, at 3:05 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > In the recent Notre-Dame thread, didn't somebody suggest breaking out the
> > marshmallows?  They should be called marshmelons. It just sounds & feels
> > better. Don't be bullied by the pedantic prescriptivists. Let's take a
> vote.
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