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12.
    Isaac Goldberg,
The Wonder of Words: An Introduction to Language for Everyman
(New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1938), 246.

13.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1838  J. F.
C
ooper,
Home as Found
I. vi. 93.

14.
    Leon Mead,
How Words Grow
(New York : T. Y. Crowell and Co., 1907), 105.

15.
    Elizabeth Webber and Mike Feinsilber,
Grand Allusions: A Lively Guide to Those Expressions, Terms and References You Ought to Know but Might Not
(Washington, DC: Farragut Pub. Co., 1990), 21.

16.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1920   G. Ade,
Hand-made Fables
, 83.
17.
Oxford English Dictionary,
Shakespeare,
Macbeth
(1623) i. vii. 2.
18.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1887   tr. J. Verne,
Clipper of the Clouds
iv. 36.

b

 

1.
    Elizabeth Webber and Mike Feinsilber,
Grand Allusions: A Lively Guide to Those Expressions, Terms and References You Ought to Know but Might Not
(Washington, DC: Farragut Pub. Co., 1990), 27.

2.
    Alfred Holt,
Phrase Origins
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1936),10.

3.
    O. Henry,
Cabbages and Kings
(New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1904).

4.
    John Soluri,
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
(Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005), 2.

5.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1901   G. B. Shaw,
Three Plays for Puritans
Pref. p. xxxi.   1903   G. B. Shaw,
Man & Superman
Ep. Ded. 30   Foolish Bardolaters make a virtue of this after their fashion.

6.
    This information appears in an article about David Block in the online sports magazine
Grantland
: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9681627/baseball-archaeologist-david-block.

7.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1958  J. C.
H
olmes
in
Esquire,
Feb. 35/2.

8.
    Ann Charters,
Kerouac: A Biography
(New York: St. Martin’s Griffin), 1994.

9.
    Quoted in Andrew Sinclair,
The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman
(New York: Praeger,1965), ix.

10.
    Jeffrey D. Schultz, John G. West, and Iain Maclean, eds.,
Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics
(Phoenix: Oryx, 1999), 25.

11.
    Julie L. Thomas, “Sanger, Margaret 1879–1966,” in
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender
, vol. 4, ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007), 1298–1300.

12.
    Elizabeth Webber and Mike Feinsilber,
Grand Allusions: A Lively Guide to Those Expressions, Terms and References You Ought to Know but Might Not
(Washington, DC: Farragut Pub. Co., 1990), 45.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1906   W. James Let. 11 Sept. (1920) II. 26.

13.
    William Rose Benét, ed.,
The Reader’s Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts
(New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948), 116.

14.
    “Coined the Word Boom,”
Boston Globe
, Jan. 1, 1897, 2. The
Oxford English Dictionary
shows a later citation listed as the earliest use: 1879 
Lumberman’s Gaz.,
19 Dec., “There has not been the boom upon lumber experienced in many other articles of merchandise.”

15.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1667   J. Evelyn,
Mem.
(1857) III. 161.   We have hardly any words that do . . . fully express the French naïveté, ennui, bizarre, etc.

16.
    Max J. Herzbergs ed., “Brain-washing” in
Word Study
2043, no. 1 (April 1953): 4. G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield, MA.

c

 
1.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1934  A.
H
uxley,
Beyond Mexique Bay,
18. A Calypso Tent . . . is . . . a tin roof on posts—in which..the local talent assembles to rehearse certain songs composed against the coming of Carnival. 1934 A.
H
uxley,
Beyond Mexique Bay,
19.
2.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1921  G. B. Si Iayv,
Pen Portraits
(1932), 262. The Chaplinesque invention of Simon of Nantua.
3.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1851   ‘G. Eliot’
Letters
18 Sept. (1954) vol. 1.

4.
    Barbara Brynko, “Wikinomics: The Crossroads of Collaboration,”
Information Today
, April 2007, 31.

5.
    www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21956748.

6.
New York Times Magazine
, July 14, 1996, SM31.

d

 

1.
    Alf Pratte, “A Word on Wordsmiths,”
Masthead
, Spring 1999.

2.
    Robert Van Gelder,
New York Times
, October 19, 1941, BR2.

3.
    C. S. Lewis,
Studies in Words
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), 268.

4.
    From Owen’s “Report on British Fossil Reptiles,” part 2.
Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
(Plymouth, England: 1842).

5.
    Swift,
Let. to Pope
22 Apr. in
Lett. Dr. Swift
(1741) 224 [Cf. ib. 143 (1737). [A long fit of deafness hath unqualified me for conversing.]

6.
Oxford English Dictionary
, 1922   J. Joyce,
Ulysses
ii. 491. 
7.
Chicago Tribune
, October 29, 1938, 14.

e

 
1.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1917  R. W.
L
ardner,
Gullible’s Trav.
27, “I and my Missus and Mrs. Hatch clubbed together on the straps and I got a earful o’ the real dope.”

2.
    Rachel Shteir,
Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 216.

3.
    Frank Worbs, “A New Word Is Coined,”
Beaver Valley Times
, February 17, 1972.

4.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1883   R. L. Stevenson,
Treasure of Franchard
vi.   He uses it [the word
ratiocinate
] . . . in the sense of
to ergotise
, implying as it were . . . a vein of sophistry.

5.
    See www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-sayings-shakespeare.html. This web page contains detailed information on 135 phrases from Shakespeare. There is no sourcing beyond the page itself.

6.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1944   J. R. R. Tolkien
Let.
7–8 Nov. (1995) 100.   For it I coined the word “eucatastrophe”: the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears. 1947   J. R. R. Tolkien,
On Fairy Stories
in
Ess. presented to Charles Williams
ii.

7.
    Leon Mead,
How Words Grow
(New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., 1907), 68.

8.
    “The Rusty Shed Company; Shakespeare Lovers’ Fury at ‘Monstrosity’ That Will Stage Plays While Theatre Is Rebuilt,”
Mail on Sunday,
London, England, January 23, 2005.

f

 

1.
    www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/04/i-apologize-for-inventing-the-word-fashionista-20-years-ago/275048.

2.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1873 G. Vandenhoff tr. A. Dumas Man-woman 64.

3.
    Boyd Tonkin, “Voice of the Beat Generation Nears the End with Serenity,”
Independent,
London, England, April 5, 1997.

4.
Ivanhoe
, by Sir Walter Scott, 1819.
Free
, of course, means “unbound,” not “without cost.” Quoted from World Wide Words, copyright Michael Quinion, 1996–2013.

5.
    Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke,
The Shakespeare Key
(New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1879), 54.

6.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1766   O. Goldsmith,
Vicar of Wakefield
I. xi. 104.

g

 

1.
    Ernst Mayr,
The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
(Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1982), 782.

2.
    Marshall McLuhan,
Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man
, 1st ed. (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994), 6.

3.
    Barnaby J. Feder, “Theodore Levitt, 81; Coined the Term ‘Globalization,’”
New York Times
, July 6, 2006.

4.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1944 M. Maverick in
New York Times Magazine
21 (May 11): 1.

5.
    E-mail from Tom Dalzell, June 13, 2013,
Oxford English Dictionary,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
, 80, 1971.

6.
    Irving L. Janis,
Victims of Groupthink
  (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1972). Irving L. Janis,
Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes,
 
second ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1982).

h

 
1.
Oxford English Dictionary,
1836
Last of Mohicans
II. xvi. W. Irving
Astoria
(1849) 249. “They will see the happy hunting-grounds, with the souls of the brave and good living in tents in green meadows.” Charles L. Cutler,
O Brave New Words! Native American Loanwords in Current English
(Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), 132.

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