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From: see1@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (ellen keyne seebacher)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: "tracer" entry in Webster's...
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 09:38:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 09:38:44 1985
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Someone proposed that the dictionary entry for "pooh-pooh theory" 
is a trap laid for definition-thieves...and proposed it in .jokes 
instead of .jokes.d.  _I_ thought it was pretty funny, and I hope
he didn't mean it !!

"Pooh-pooh," "ding-dong" and "bow-wow" are the commonly accepted 
names for three centuries-old theories of the origin of language 
(all commonly discredited, but of historical interest).  Almost
any introductory linguistics textbook will tell you;  I'm fond of
Dwight Bolinger's _Aspects of Language_ (a good read for anyone 
curious about natural language).

Sorry the tone is so serious here;  guess I've been awake too long.

-- 
 ellen keyne seebacher               ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!see1
 university of chicago        
   computation center            "...and to my Democratic precinct      
 (x9.xes@UChicago.Mailnet)              captain, I leave my vote."