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The canonical list of Tom Swifties

• eesmith 3y ago
  Canonical does not mean complete. https://archive.org/details/scopeenglishgram0000adam/page/66/mode/2up?q=%22Tom+Swiftie%22 https://archive.org/details/scopeenglishgram0000adam/page/66... has, for example, '"This milk has been sitting out for two days", the boy said sourly." > I meticulously acknowledge my sources. What does this mean? https://archive.org/details/joyoflexhowtohav00bran/page/146/mode/2up?q=%22Tom+Swiftie%22 https://archive.org/details/joyoflexhowtohav00bran/page/146/... from 1980 lists 11 Tom Swifties, attributed to Edward J. O'Brian. 10 of them are in this canonical list. Where are the corresponding attributions for those 10?
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  • sieste 3y ago
    > Where are the corresponding attributions for those 10? he asked, misintendedly.