As great as Adam and Joe are, the term pre-dates their podcasts. I always thought it was coined on the language log, http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/

As great as Adam and Joe are, the term pre-dates their podcasts. I always thought it was coined on the language log, http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.h...