[thechat] Word for this thing...

[Jonathon Isaac Swiderski]

> anyhow, why send me to bartleby and The Columbia Guide to Standard American
> English as your justification?  where's your link to the OED?

[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00232897].  Not that you'll find what
you're looking for there; the OED has a tendency not to list variant forms.
The OED also has a tendency to be freakin' expensive, so if you're not at a
university or library, they'll ask you to buy one, so you'll just have to
take my word for it.

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Jonathon Isaac Swiderski       jswiders at cs.oberlin.edu
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Mister Worf, show these children the airlock.