RIP Muhammed Ali. More OED entrees than, well, Thomas Pynchon.

Jochen Stremmel jstremmel at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 07:40:41 CDT 2016


Some of you will know the story of the shortest poem that Plimpton tells in
When We Were Kings. That was the reason I looked up On the Antiquity of
Microbes.

2016-06-04 14:20 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> He's in the @OED <https://twitter.com/OED> 21 times, including rumble;
> rope-a-dope; braggadocious; to be unable to fight one's way out of a paper
> bag. #RIPMuhammadAli <https://twitter.com/hashtag/RIPMuhammadAli?src=hash>
>
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