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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Kevin Wilson writes:
> richard marchetti wrote in message ...
> >
> > This whole thread is completely psychotic. "Bricksmith" and "bricksmiths"
> > are actual words being used in the vernacular --
>
> They are? I thought we made it up :-)
>
> Seriously, a Google search on "bricksmith" doesn't turn up anything that
> could be called "actual words being used in the vernacular".... you get
> lots of GoB-related hits, a real estate agent called Brick Smith (really!),
> a translation from the Polish, translation from Arabic of some kind, a house
> brick business using it as a phone number mnemonic, a mason using it as his
> company name... stuff like that.
>
> It's not in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, or The American Heritage®
> Dictionary of the English Language, or Cambridge Dictionaries online. I
> don't have an OED to look.
Well, glad you asked! (Never mind that you didn't ask ME-- any excuse to haul
out my OED!)
I have looked (OED Compact edition two volume set with the magnifier in the
slipcase that I got at the garage sale with the Bentley for 2 bucks), and it
ain't in there. They've got bricklayer, brickmaker, and bricksetter. If it
makes a difference I have the 1984 printing of the 1971 edition.
So if you coin the word, is it yours?
Maggie C. (who really doesn't think this belongs in .clones CMIIAW)
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