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Authors: Paul Dickson
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. |
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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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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.
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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. |
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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).
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| 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. |
