[Ads-l] exorbitant/absorbent mixup

[Parish, James]

I can verify the text; I checked my (electronic) copy of _All Things 
Bright and Beautiful_, which includes most of _Let Sleeping Vets Lie_, 
and the snippet does appear there.

Jim Parish

On 5/2/2019 1:29 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
> British Veterinarian and author James Herriot used "absorbent price"
> in the dialog of a character.
>
> Date: 1973
> Book title: Let Sleeping Vets Lie
> Author: James Herriot
> Quote Page 28
> Database: Google Books snippet. Unverified
>
> [Begin snippet text]
> 'It nearly shifted your pig, didn't it?' I sniffed at the mixture.
> 'And no wonder. It smells almost like pure turpentine.'
>
> 'Turpentine! Well by gaw is that all it is? And bloke said it was
> summat new. Charged me an absorbent price for it too.'
> [End snippet text]
>
> Garson
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:10 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>> On May 2, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> 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."
>>> i've been off in a fog, musing about how to rate particular academic price tags as light, regular, super, super plus, and ultra absorbency.  there are a lot of ultra absorbent price tags out there, especially in the handbook and Festschrift emporia.
>> Some of those products are designed for library or foreign markets, which are known to have different standards of absorption than those products intended for personal use.
>>
>> LH
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