Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001874, Sun, 23 Mar 1997 15:04:40 -0800

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Lolita on Word-A-Day list (fwd)
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From: Larry Zirlin <LARRYZ@worldnet.att.net>
This mailing list's entry for March 23 is "Lolita", defined as
"a precociously seductive girl." The theme for words this week has been
"Incubus, and what else to avoid while shopping for shoes," which takes
off from the inappropriately named line of women's shoes which were
recently marketed until someone told the manufacturer what the word
actually meant.

The URL for Wordsmith is http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/


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Larry Zirlin