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Article: Jim Lands a Big Fish: Neologistic Victory
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- The Washington Post
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- September 11, 2000
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There must be something in the water up in Philadelphia.
That ancient metropolis gave us the winner of last month's
neologism contest. Now it has given us this month's winner, too.
His name is Jim Munnis. He lives in Downingtown, Pa., a suburb of
Liberty Bell-ville. But the coincidence doesn't end there.
Like last month's champ, Joseph Ferry, of Erdenheim, Pa., Jim is a
lawyer.
For the same firm.
And they say lawyers are drudges.
You'll say otherwise when you read Jim's winning entry. Like about
3,000 fellow make-up-a-word enthusiasts, Jim took a crack at the
August version of our monthly challenge, which was:
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