meh!

[Ben Zimmer]

Thanks for compiling the "meh" archive, Arnold. I would also add my Boston Globe
column, "The 'Meh' Generation (2/26/12):

http://b.globe.com/mehgeneration


On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>
> On Jul 6, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:
>
>> Neither in OED nor findable in the Archives.
>>
>> I heard it once or twice about a decade ago, but now I've heard it several
>> times in the last few weeks, and you can buy a T-shirt that says it.
>
> BZ. 6/8/06: Meh-ness to society:
>  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003238.html
>
> BZ, 2/16/07: Awwa, meh, feh, heh:
>  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004205.html
>
> BZ, 11/21/08: The “meh” wars:
>  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=855
>
> BZ on Visual Thesaurus, 11/21/08: Mailbag Friday: “Meh”
>   http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1614/
>
> BZ, 11/24/08: The “meh” wars, part 2:
>  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=865
>
> AZ, 12/1/11: Meh again:
>   http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3593
>
> ML, 12/22/11: Words for ‘meh’:
>   http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3653
>
> BZ, 2/26/12: Three scenes in the life of “meh”:
>   http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3806



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