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Using all my force of will to leave puns on depends/Depends to those more qualified (everyone!)
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perhaps one is preferred specifically with depends.
Depends upon what, she asked? [batting eyelashes innocently e]
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Free proofreading, I love it. I've sent a hasty email to the web guy to fix "One entry person, please."
I do think that one person is going to get the job of sorting all the entries so perhaps that was a plea for help on the part of the web guy.
It's nice to see all the responses. I expected three flames (two spam, one spelling), five in-jokes and two silly puns. (This being the message-board average.)
Should I start an "ask a lexicographer" thread? I could try to drag some of my colleagues in as well, both from OUP and other places. I'm sure people would ask about words and dictionary procedure, but I can also offer handy stain-removal tips and delicious recipes, as well as advice for the lovelorn...
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OOOH. Recipes! Stain removal tips! Advice to the lovelorn! Naughty Erin for merely lurking all this time! Give us what you've got, my dear. Don't hold out on us any longer.
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Should I start an "ask a lexicographer" thread?
Oh, yes, please!
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wait a minute-- i have already been displace as the food thread queen--[honestly, lately all i have to do is just hint at a food fight and everyone gets back to words] and now i am getting more competition?
and do we have any lovelorn? We have Jackie doing a little bit of match making-- but lovelorn? nah!
what we do need to know is your sense of humor. are you one of the gutter police? or better yet, do you make occasional forays into the gutter? a dog lover? and just how shaggy is your dog?
we have and love our dear tsuwm when we want to end an argruement by consulting the OED-- sheer expertice abounds. what else do you have to offer..
maybe you should send an email to Anu, the wordsmith-- and join us for a chat!
about half of us here have read Winchester's the professor and the madman we know how the oed got going the first time.. it might be interesting to join a discussion on how thing have changed. (i noted in the back of my copy of the book an invitation to join in and help OUP with new additions-- so that hasn't changed.)
but you don't really need our permission.. you're always welcome to join us--just remember how things work.. a 90 posting thread on footnotes doesn't have a single ibid.
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I've sent a hasty email to the web guy to fix "One entry person, please."  Oh my goodness--I didn't know anyone official would come back and see that! again! But, Ms. Erin, I agree completely with consuelo, who said, OOOH. Recipes! Stain removal tips! Advice to the lovelorn! Naughty Erin for merely lurking all this time! Give us what you've got, my dear. Don't hold out on us any longer.And yes, go ahead with "Ask a lexicographer", by all means, please. Helen, thank you for the ibid. reminder--that gave me an idea: can we say that YART = op. cit.?
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That would be a Bonanza, ma'am.
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