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Tracking down the roots of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (2012) (visualthesaurus.com)
61 points by fanf2 on Dec 31, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


> … Merriam-Webster's director of defining, Steve Perrault …

That is an awesome job title!


How do we know this 'smoking gun' wasn't a planted fabrication?


But why would they do that after they had already won the copyright infringement case? It seems like it would be pointlessly risky to perpetrate the fraud at that point.

If Disney faked it and it was found out, wouldn't that strengthen the plaintiff's case on appeal?




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