sidebar to recent discussion of southmore

[Bruce Dykes]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard W. Kane <bkane at TIGGER.JVNC.NET>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 10:03 PM
Subject: sidebar to recent discussion of southmore


>Have Listmembers encountered the fairly recent usage of "sophomore" to
mean:
>the second of a sequence
>(analogous to "freshman" meaning the first, the initial one -- as in "your
>freshman --followed by your sophomore-- year in college)?
>
>I've collected these examples
>:
>Mike Nichols's sophomore film -- Villag Voice 2/18/97
>Unfortunately, on their sophomore CD -- TIME 6/9/97
>Maybe it's a case of sophomore slump -- NYTimes BookRev 1/11/98
>his sophomore album's most memorable moments -- Village Voice 4/14/98
>routed any fear of a sophomore jinx -- Vanity Fair March 99
>one sure thing: the sophomore jinx -- TIME 8/16/99
>
>But still have not been able to convince the dictionary editor I report to
>that this is a legitimate if Informal/Slangy addition to the vocabulary.


I first encountered it in Spin magazine in the 80's...I'll bet Rolling Stone
used it in the 70's..also check Billboard....

bkd