BONES OF JAW
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Obviously, Janet Kinosian can’t see the word for the prose (as in “forest for the trees”) in “Publicist Patois” (L.A. Speak, Palm Latitudes, April 24). The “Nightline”-originated word for Kissinger-type experts, “jaboney,” is a verbal diminutive of “jaw-boner.”
DAVID B. REISS
West Los Angeles