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- From: thayes@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Derivation of "wonk"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.190747.5536@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 19:07:47 EST
- References: <1d3u69INNpqp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov3.184608.7707@nas.nasa.gov> <1dpfueINNo4m@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Nov11.193900.1754@nas.nasa.gov>
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- DAZ> National Public Radio had a piece on Nov. 10 in which the editor of the
- > Oxford American Dictionary discussed "wonk." He said his earliest citation
- > was from Sports Illustrated in 1962. (He also mentioned the backwards "know"
- > theory and seemed to think it was spurious.)
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- So did he say how *Sports Illustrated* used the term or where they got it from?
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- -----ted hayes
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