[Ads-l] exorbitant/absorbent mixup

[Margaret Winters]

In that it absorbs (or doesn't) the contents of one's wallet???

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MARGARET E WINTERS
Former Provost
Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu


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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Stephen Goranson <goranson at DUKE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:30 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: exorbitant/absorbent mixup

>From a book review (of 1 Enoch, trans.) at amazon:

"Scholarly work without the typically absorbent academic price tag."


SG

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