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OT: copacetic in the online corpus
- Subject: OT: copacetic in the online corpus
- From: Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:41:42 -0500
Jon Pareles wrote:
On another front, that unreliable source Wikipedia does like "copasetic" the way I spelled it. Though now I'm tempted to switch to copacetic, even if it looks a bit like a vinegary policeman.
Google's reached the point where it can function as a reasonable
facsimile of a current lexicographical corpus; you can always google
alternative spellings, using Advanced Search to specify English pages
only, and see how the Web is voting. In this case, roughly 3 to 2 for
copacetic.
Paul Lagasse