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Re: Numpties and bennies: msg#00025science.linguistics.corpora
Diana Maynard wrote: Incidentally, there's no wikipedia entry for "numpty". Nor should there be, arguably - Wikipedia is not a dictionary. There is an entry in Wiktionary, though: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/numpty By the way, I have heard "bennies" used as slang for "benefits", especially in the phrase "friends with bennies", meaning casual sex partners. The folks who named this credit card are apparently unfamiliar with that usage: https://www.mybenny.com/BennyCard/FAQ.htm Or I could be misunderstanding what one can purchase with the card ... - John D. Burger MITRE |
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