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| 2. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1886 ‘M. Twain’ Speeches (1923) 137. |
3.
Deanna R. Adams,
Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Cleveland Connection
(Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2002), 446. www.questia.com/read/109691790.
| 4. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1923 W. De Beck in N.Y. American 26 (Oct. 9), 3. |
| 5. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1974 “J. le Carré,” Tinker, Tailor vi, 48. |
6.
Aoife Bannon makes this assertion in his “THINK you’re a real brainbox?” column in the
Sun
, London, England, May 15, 2012.
| 7. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1858 O. W. Holmes, Autocrat of Breakfast-table vi. 143. |
| 8. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1839 E. A. Poe Wks. (1884) I. 132. An evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor. |
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| 1. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1954 Jrnl. Amer. Psychoanal. Assoc. 2: 327. [Report of presentation by Erik H. Erikson] George Bernard Shaw arranged for himself a psycho-social moratorium at the age of twenty when his identity crisis led him to leave . . . his family, friends and familiar work. |
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Kevin Jackson, “ARTS: A Treasury of Wit: The Victorian Art Critic John Ruskin Denounced the Excesses of Capitalism in His Essay Collection ‘Unto This Last.’ Kevin Jackson Explains Why He and the Cartoonist Hunt Emerson Have Turned This Message into a Comic Book,”
Independent
, London, England, November 29, 2005.
3.
Alf Pratte, “A Word on Wordsmiths,”
Masthead
, Spring 1999, www.questia.com/read/1G1-54422419.
4.
“Curtains,”
New York Times Book Review,
Jan. 6, 2013.
5.
Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke,
The Shakespeare Key
(New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1879), 57.
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Martyn Bone, “Jazz Age,” in
Dictionary of American History
, ed. Stanley I. Kutler, third ed., vol. 4 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003), 469–70.
| 2. | American Speech, 38, 169. In 1972, Time magazine reported that the elementary geology course popular for athletes at the University of Pennsylvania was called Rocks for Jocks. |
3.
Anthony Burgess, “Here’s a Dictionary You Can believe In,”
Washington Times
, March 27, 1989, E1–2.
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Verily Anderson, “Common and Uncommon Words,”
Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter,
39.4 (2003). Here I am quoting from the two-volume, 2,475-page
Shorter Oxford Dictionary of Historical Principals
(UK: Clarendon Press), which was revised and edited in 1933 by the highly regarded academic, C. T. Onions, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Reader of English Philology in the University of Oxford.
2.
Merriam-Webster,
Word Study
, October 1948, ed. Max J. Herzberg, “Who Makes Up the New Words?” pp. 1-4, vol. 24, no. 1. G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield, MA, p. 6.
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Jeffrey McQuain and Stanley Malless,
Coined by Shakespeare: Words and Meanings First Penned by the Bard
(Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1998), 127–28.
2.
Alf Pratte, “A Word on Wordsmiths,”
Masthead
, Spring 1999.
3.
Her obituary in the
Baltimore Sun
, February 27, 1979, A13.
| 4. | Life , May 14, 1956, 91. |
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| 1. | Oxford English Dictionary, “G. Eliot” in J. W. Cross, George Eliot’s Life (1885) II. 263. |
2.
“The Me Decade,” in
American Decades
, Gale Virtual Reference Library, ed. Judith S. Baughman et al., vol. 8: 1970–1979 (Detroit: Gale, 2001).
3.
Peter D. Salins,
Assimilation, American Style
(New York: Basic Books, 1997), 10. www.questia.com/read/43129338.
4.
Lawrence Lockridge,
The Ethics of Romanticism
, Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2, 1989, p. 382, where he cites vol. 7 of Byron’s Letters.
5.
Alf Pratte, “A Word on Wordsmiths,”
Masthead
, Spring 1999.
6.
The first and only citation for this nonce word in the
OED,
1916 R. Frost
Let.
24 May in
Lett. to L. Untermeyer
(1964), 34: Moanism and swounding. On larruping an emotion. Men’s tears tragic, women’s a nuisance.
| 7. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1737 S wift Let. to Pope 23 July in Lett. Dr. Swift (1741). |
| 8. | Oxford English Dictionary, J. le Carré, Tinker, Tailor viii. 62, Joseph C. Goulden, The Dictionary of Espionage: Spyspeak into English , Dover ed. (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2012), x–x1. |
9.
Andy Duncan, “The Humanism of C. M. Kornbluth’s [The Marching Morons],” in
Flashes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the War of the Worlds Centennial: Nineteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
, ed. David Ketterer (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001), 98.
10.
Nexis search: 1999,
Computer Weekly
( 2 Sept.) “Our new senior DBA starts on Monday. She’s a muggle. No IT background, understanding or aptitude at all.”
11.
“J. K. Rowling and the Billion-Dollar Empire,”
Forbes,
Feb. 26, 2004.
| 12 . | Oxford English Dictionary, 1838 J. F. C ooper, Homeward Bound II. vi. 109. |
| 13. | Oxford English Dictionary, E. E. Cummings Let. 4 June (1969) 26. |
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P. Stockwell, “Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics,” vol. 6 (Boston: Elsevier, 2006), 5.
| 2. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1883 O. W ilde in South. Times 6 Oct. 4/2. The nasalism of the modern American had been retained from the Puritan Fathers. |
| 3. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1964 I. F leming, You only live Twice, x. 126. |
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| 1. | Oxford English Dictionary, Thackeray, Pendennis (1850) I. xxix. 286. |
| 2. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1931 H. Crane Let. 21 Sept. (1965) 381; the explanation of Oz for Australia is from the Times of India , Oct. 8, 2006. |
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| 1. | Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Nov. 7, 2012. |
2.
From “Le Collectionneur de Timbres-poste,” Nov. 15, 1864; there is a discussion of the distinction between a philatelist and a stamp collector in the
Chicago Tribune
of September 18, 1932, in that the term philatelist is reserved for the advanced collector.
3.
B. Jonson,
New Inne
iii. ii. 238. “Most Socratick Lady! Or, if you will Ironick! gi’ you ioy O’ you Platonick loue here.”
4.
1913 E. H. Porter,
Pollyanna
xv, 148.
| 5. | Boston Globe, June 9, 2013. |
| 6. | c 1740 in P. Egan, Boxiana (1823) I. 44: “Buckhorse, and several other Pugilists , will shew the Art of Boxing.” |
| 7. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1922 H. Lofting, Doctor Dolittle x. 92. |
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Robert Stockwell and Donka Minkova,
English Words: History and Structure
(Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 5.
2.
1718 N. Amhurst,
Protestant Popery
iv. 61.
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Ben Bradlee,
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
, 1st Touchstone ed. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 429.
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1.
Barry Moser,
Word Mysteries and Histories: From Quiche to Humble Pie
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin), 217–18.
2.
Merriam-Webster
Word Study
, December 1948, editor Max J. Herzberg, “Invention of ‘Scientist,’” page 4, vol. 24, no. 2. G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield, MA.
3.
Rachel Bowlby,
Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 32.
| 4. | Oxford English Dictionary, Casino Royale , chap. 7: Rouge et Noir[6]. |
| 5. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1959 W. Howells, Mankind in the Making vi. 97. |
| 6. | Oxford English Dictionary, 1927 S. Lewis, Elmer Gantry ix. 134. |
7.
Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke,
The Shakespeare Key
(New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1879), 54.
8.
H. L. Mencken,
The Bathtub Hoax, and Other Blasts and Bravos from the
Chicago Tribune, ed. Robert McHugh (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958), 203.