Margalit Fox channels Dorothy Parker?

[Ben Zimmer]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> (Other lines in Fox's appreciation are nearly as
> good.  Although Fox alleges that Brown coined "mouseburger"; I see in
> the OED that the Daily Times-News of Burlington, N.C. had it 11 years
> earlier.)

Yes, but the 1971 cite is an article quoting Brown, so the only error
is attributing it to her 1982 book _Having It All_.

It would be nice if the OED more systematically identified who is
being quoted in such situations. Same goes for Gary Carter and
"F-bomb":

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/08/14/the_f_bomb_and_gary_carter_did_the_late_mets_catcher_invent_the_phrase_.html

--bgz

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