[Ads-l] Verb: papped - photographed by a member of the paparazzi

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Thu Sep 22 23:57:44 UTC 2022


Nancy Friedman wrote:
> I investigated "to pap" (and its migration to the US) in May 2022, after
> the death of the well-known paparazzo Ron Galella.
>
> https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2022/05/word-of-the-week-paparazzo.html

Excellent article, Nancy.
Your article discussed the migration of “to pap” from Britain. The
2022 example in my post was spoken by Australian actress Margot Robbie
and appeared on the website of U.S. media company PopSugar.
Garson

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