[Ads-l] "cohoop" verb, 1676; not in OED

Joel Berson berson at ATT.NET
Wed Dec 16 01:28:28 UTC 2015


Yes I do find it now.  No clue to my earlier failure; perhaps I used some inflected form.

Joel

      From: Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 1:46 PM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "cohoop" verb, 1676; not in OED
   
The custom search (http://goo.gl/gLGhEs), while not perfect, does
indeed find those Dec. 2010 posts when "cohoop" is queried.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Joel Berson wrote:
>
> I blush -- the earlier input was mine very own, and the very same 1676
> quotation. I can only plead that the extent of my short-term memory
> deficit has now reached five years.
>
> (I had used Ben's "custom" Google search, but will in the future add
> Garson's formula.)
>
> ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
> >
> > Joel Berson wrote:
> > > I seem to remember some earlier discussion of cohooping, but
> > > can't retrieve anything.
> >
> > Here are two links to previous messages in December 2010. The posts
> > were located by using the Google query:
> > cohoop site:linguistlist.org
> >
> > http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2010-December/105147.html
> > http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2010-December/105148.html

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