Ofay etymology (speculative)--"au fait" = socially acceptable, genteel

[Sam Clements]

Another explanation would be the lack of easily availability of your
published volumes.  If you have these compilations for sale, I wonder if the
owners of the board would object to you hawking them here?

I would buy a few, and I'm sure Doug would.

If I'm not mistaken, some, if not much of the work covers Barry's and your
finds which are NOT accessible in the current archives of this board, but
include posts from the older version of the board?

Sam Clements

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: Ofay etymology (speculative)--"au fait" = socially acceptable,
genteel


>
>          As for Douglas Wilson being unaware of the "ofay" treatment in
Comments on
>         Etymology or _Studies in Slang_, the fault is mine rather than
his.  I need to
>         publish a bibliography of the Comments on Etymology items and the
>         Studies in Slang items and put it online so interested scholars
can have
>         ready access to it..
>
>         Gerald Cohen