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Comments on the fact that "euxpetitious" cannot be found in the OED: Oh. Well, my roommate and I made it up sophomore year. Since then it's entered the common lexicon. I use it all the time and people are too proud to call me on it, because it sounds like it must be a real word...
Recently, Sun Microsystems, a leading manufacturer of high-end computers (the "fas" machine is a Sun, for example), has added a new term to the cyberpunk lexicon: HotJava...
...could become a hero by co-opting it for truth and light. The producers persuaded him to accept answers in advance by telling him how much good he was doing the cause of education with his presence. And the schmuck (to borrow a word from Herbie Stempel's lexicon) believed them...
...This lexicon is a remarkable demonstration of the resilience and resourcefulness of English as it constantly enriches and renews itself. Volume I is galluptious testimony to this. The completed work promises to be one gollywhopper of a dictionary...
...aside, I should mention that any student who is a self-proclaimed socialist (to those who subscribe to Peninsula's lexicon, a "socialist" is everyone who is to the left of Peninsula on the political spectrum, including George Bush) will receive much more flak at Harvard than most conservatives. Remember that the basics of economics are taught by a former Reagan advisor here at "liberal" Harvard...