Surstromming; Afterparty (1977); Mocktail (1956); New York Herald
Benjamin Barrett
bjb5 at U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Sat Feb 14 23:01:33 UTC 2004
Thank you, Barry, for these. I have submitted afterparty as a candidate for
nijikai to the Japanese-English dictionary I am helping edit. In the past, I
have always glossed this as the "party after the party".
Benjamin Barrett
>-----Original Message-----
>From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]
>AFTERPARTY
>
>AFTERPARTY--81,600 Google hits, 4,860 Google Groups hits
>AFTER PARTY--151,000 Google hits, 9,890 Google Group hits
>
> I've been seeing "afterparty" a lot. What's an
>"afterparty"? Sleep?
> Are there after-recipes for it?
> WordSpy (added April 30, 2002) has "afterparty" from March
>17, 1980 in the WASHINGTON POST. Google Groups has it only from 1990.
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