[Ads-l] exorbitant/absorbent mixup

[Dan Goncharoff]

With respect to getting authors who know what words mean, you get what
you pay for.
DanG

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:41 AM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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>
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> Subject: exorbitant/absorbent mixup
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> From a book review (of 1 Enoch, trans.) at amazon:
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> "Scholarly work without the typically absorbent academic price tag."
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> SG
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