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<br>         ADS-L Digest - 27 Jun 1998 to 28 Jun 1998             98-06-29 00:00:07
<br>There are 7 messages totalling 314 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. More on incent
<br>  2. Swing terms (August/September 1938)
<br>  3. "...And the Horse You Rode In On"
<br>  4. Billy B. Van, "skiddoo" and "patsy"
<br>  5. more on 'grow' (2)
<br>  6. Early GROWS 'cause to increase/develop'
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<br>Date:    Sun, 28 Jun 1998 00:08:50 -0400
<br>From:    Alice Faber <faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HASKINS.YALE.EDU>
<br>Subject: More on incent
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<br>Here's a live sighting, not so much as evidence of the word's existence but
<br>rather of what someone thinks of it, from a police procedural novel, _Murder
<br>Book_, by Richard Rayner, Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
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<br>"Larry Murakami was chief of detectives and, to be honest, not much of a
<br>detective. He was cool and reserved, neither truthful nor trustworthy, a small
<br>man with dark eyes that missed very little. I liked him. He used "incent" as a
<br>verb. Larry had been my great ally in attaining the promotion over Drew. He
<br>kept a TV in his office to follow the news and, if he didn't get home in time,
<br>to be sure not to miss the latest episode of Jeopardy. He was devoted to
<br>Jeopardy because he generally knew more answers than the contestants. Politics
<br>was his game, though he also patrolled the aisles of discount warehouses in
<br>search of designer suits with the labels torn out, or, during the sales, Fred
<br>Segal, with his two teenage daughters in tow. Three years running he'd won the
<br>award for Best-Dressed Detective of the Year." (p. 85-86)
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<br>OF course, what I can't figure out is whether the narrator likes this guy
<br>*because* he uses "incent" as a verb or despite it.
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<br>Alice Faber
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