TRP Mentioned in "Dear Annie" Advice Column

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My first hearing of "callipygian" was from an sweeheart describing her remarkable, somewhat oversized, posterior.
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From: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> It's all planted to stir up publicity for the new novel.  I smell
> conspiracy.
> 
> On 7/28/06, K. Michael Babcock <aesova at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  "DEAR ANNIE: You recently said one of the first uses of the word
> > "callipygian" was by Thomas Pynchon in his book "Gravity's Rainbow." I
> > remembered seeing the word as a kid, so I did some research in my Oxford
> > English Dictionary and found that the word was used at least as early as the
> > 1640s by Thomas Browne. Since Pynchon's book came out in the 1970s, you were
> > just three centuries off.
> >
> > - D.W.M.
> >
> > DEAR D.W.M.: Thanks for the correction. My, how time flies."
> >
> > http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/entertainment/ci_4094278
> > http://tinyurl.com/m3vmv
> >
> >



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