T & A; Big O

[Aaron E. Drews]

Last summer, the Department of Applied Linguistics merged with (was absorbed
into) the Department of Linguistics.  It became (as the signature says)
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.  Or T&A Linguistics, for
short.  I'm the only one that sniggers every time I see or hear "T&A"
Linguistics.  Even other (long-term expatriate) Americans don't get it.  It
doesn't seem to be a phrase that has much currency here, or at least in the
department.

--Aaron



on 1/5/00 9:04 AM, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> I just noticed that I had these antedates.
>
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> T & A
>
> The OED has 1972 for the full phrase, but indicates that Lenny Bruce used
> the term.  He may have coined it.
> ROLLING STONE, 7 December 1968, pg. 6, col. 4, headline, "Tits 'n Ass LP
> Brown-bagged in England."  The album, by Jimi Hendrix (R.S. showed the
> disputed cover), was ELECTRIC LADYLAND.
>
>

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron      Departments of English Language and
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                    Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

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