From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhb5c!mhb5b!smb
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: posslq
Article-I.D.: mhb5b.122
Posted: Tue Feb  8 20:07:40 1983
Received: Fri Feb 11 07:45:12 1983
References: <189@hou5e.UUCP>

"Posslq" was apparently used first by the Census Bureau, who had to have
*some* term to stick on their reports.  It was publicized by Charles Osgood
in one of his "poems" on CBS Radio; it can be found in one of his recent
books.  Ann Landers has also reprinted it.


		--Steve Bellovin
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