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By Jennifer Schuessler / The Bulletin
December 27, 2012
When people talk about “the whole nine yards," just what are they talking about?
For decades the answer to that question has been the Bigfoot of word origins, chased around wild speculative corners by amateur word freaks, with exasperated lexicographers and debunkers of folk etymologies in....
