The thing is, is that Doc's "double is" has been tracked by linguists...

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 20:10:36 CDT 2010


On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, OED only tracks usage in print. Usage in the spoken language
> generally (not always!) predates print usage, sometimes considerably.

How does the OED define "Usage"?



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