End of ADS-L Digest - 12 Mar 1995 to 13 Mar 1995

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There are 32 messages totalling 600 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Word-of-the-year (early sweepstakes entry) (3)

 2. Interest in expletives? (3)

 3. language and Society course

 4. helicopter seeds (2)

 5. non-standard past participles (2)

 6. language and society text (3)

 7. Cajun Query (3)

 8. Sam Hill (6)

 9. Sam in 1839

 10. expletive delineated (2)

 11. Expletive origin

 12. "make use of"

 13. AWFUL OFFAL

 14. barbecue and pig-pickin's

 15. Jesus H. Christ

 16. One Week to December



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Date:  Tue, 14 Mar 1995 00:35:18 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Word-of-the-year (early sweepstakes entry)



Here's my early favorite:  sero-discordant



Context (N. Y. Times article 3/13/95, B1, "Positively Negative"):



 ...There are so many relationships in which one partner is H.I.V.-positive

and one partner H.I.V.-negative that the phenomenon has earned its own

neologism: "sero-discordant" couples.



                     Larry