Tuxedo (1887); "88" in Safire's column

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    William Safire's "On Language" column in this Sunday's NEW YORK TIMES
> talks about "stop on a dime" and other "dime" stuff.  We've discussed
> this here before.  This language is only a mere 75 years old.  Safire
> opens up the RANDOM HOUSE HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAL SLANG for
> the only meaningful citation in the column--and can't even spell "Von
> Vechten" (it's "Von Vechter" here).

Actually, Barry, Safire wrote "Van Vechter" and the correct spelling is
"Van Vechten."

Fred Shapiro


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