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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!Cadence.COM!vince
  3. From: vince@cadence.com (Vince Gibboni)
  4. Subject: Re: Derivation of "wonk"
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.231101.29504@Cadence.COM>
  6. Sender: usenet@Cadence.COM (Usenet News)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: beepbeep
  8. Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
  9. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:11:01 GMT
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  12. > (Ted B Samsel) writes:
  13. > I like this word WONK. As in  policy WONK. Any ideas on the
  14. > derivations thereof?
  15.  
  16.  
  17.     Sounds suspiciously similar to wonky...
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  21.                                                          vince@gda.cadence.com
  22.  
  23.          Go play in the blender.
  24.              - Garfield
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