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Cannon tabulated an attrition rate of 1.5% for new meanings and new items originally admitted to the Merriam Addenda Sections which were cumulatively included in reprints of Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language (1961) at five-year intervals in the 1966-81 period, but then were excluded from Merriam's 9,000 Words (1983).
In an interview with the Boston Globe earlier this year, Morris downplayed expectations: "If you want to know what happened at a specific meeting, read Washington Post reporter Lou Cannon's book.
True, there is not much subtlety in calling a gun a cannon , a ship a canoe , or an incompetent prizefighter a canvasback ; but that a canoe inspector is a gynecologist is not immediately obvious, that Cement City might be thought picturesquely oblique for a cemetery, and that chain lightning is certainly as descriptive as rotgut for cheap potent liquor cannot escape anyone's notice.
Even as most of North Carolina's textile workers walked out, Cannon workers stayed put.
On your way to Brockton Point, listen for the 9 o’clock gun, a cannon that fires at 9pm, originally to warn fishermen of the fishing curfew.