I can't remember what I called this back in the 50's,
but I know it wasn't 'skitching'. What did you call
this back in the 'old' days?
--- Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>
> > > has "skitching" been collected?
> >
> > We have about four examples, all from the 1990s,
> in the OED files. I
> > have one cite in the HDAS files as well, from a
> 1996 episode of _ER,_
> > in reference to holding onto a car on foot as it
> pulls you along a
> > icy road.
>
> The earliest on Nexis is the following:
>
> 1983 _N.Y. Times_ 21 Aug. [article beginning on page
> XI. 14] Then there
> was the game of tyring to hang onto the back bumper
> of a truck and riding
> the bumper like a ski--"skitching," according to Van
> Patten.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
>
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fred R. Shapiro Editor
> Associate Librarian for Public Services YALE
> DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS
> and Lecturer in Legal Research Yale
> University Press,
> Yale Law School
> forthcoming
> e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu
> http://quotationdictionary.com
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
=====
James D. SMITH |If history teaches anything
SLC, UT |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com |whether we act quickly and decisively
|or slowly and cautiously.
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.
http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/