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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Vagaries of reference: eschatological uses of 'sandwiches' in loose speech

From Quinion's note today in his "World Wide Words":


Irving S Schloss notes that last Saturday's New York Times reports
the following about Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin:

For years,
he has carried the same bagged lunch to work (two ham and cheese
sandwiches on wheat) - a fact he has been fond of mentioning on
campaign trails.

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Implicature:

They must be getting awfully stale by now.

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