yonks

• Jargoneer (jargon ; engineer) - someone who creates jargon.Obscureaucrat (obscure ; bureaucrat) - a civil servant whose responsibilities are largely unknown.Tripewriter (tripe ; typewriter) - a hack whose copy is untrustworthy.Oh, and I also wasn't aware that yonks - meaning a long time - derives from years and months and weeks.
• I'd not looked at any of my Lady Hypatia portraits for yonks, not even in my mind's eye. —  process 10
• Word for yonks has had the feature in it to disable the macros in documents. —  Blog updates
• I'd been wanting that phone for yonks, and he'd gotten it for me. —  Kottu
• Economists have for yonks agreed that financial repression - whether through high bank reserve requirements, government-determined credit allocation or straightforward government domination of banks - prevents the efficient allocation of capital and thereby impairs economic growth (of which we have precious little to begin with). —  FT.com | Blogs

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