| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
Seen in a newspaper political column: the newly coined word CONTRAPRENEURSHIP
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 296.1 | GOBLIN::MCVAY | Pete McVay, VRO (Telecomm) | Tue Jan 13 1987 13:32 | 3 | |
"Escalate" was first coined by John Foster Dulles, referring to
the problem of increasing conflict--and American involvement--in
French Indochina.
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| 296.2 | God infinitum | GLIVET::RECKARD | I'll get you, Frank Gatulis! | Tue Jan 26 1988 16:20 | 3 |
... heard recently in a context which seemed to draw on both "G_d awful" and "ad infinitum" for shades of meaning. One of the best mixed metaphors I've ever heard (or is it phrase-spoonerisms?). | |||||