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[Jonathon Green]

> The English are unaccountably loyal to Bridget Jones.
>
Not all of them, I assure you. And while I can't offer a citation to prove
it (best so far is from 1995), I would suggest that 'bad hair day' was not a
coinage of Helen Fielding's (the creator of BJ - who in fairness was
actually quite amusing for the first few columns in the [London]
Independent). Any suggestions as to a specific date of coinage would be
gratefully received.

But the OED is loyal to the dictium of, as I recall, Truman Capote: 'A boy's
gotta peddle his book' and such 'sexy' headwords always get the requisite
column inches.

Jonathon Green