Slipperspoon; NYPL & Big Apple Fest; Google's "similar pages"

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SLIPPERSPOON or SLIPPER SPOON

DARE ends on "sk."

(JSTOR)
The Lexical Method as a Significant Factor in Vocabulary Fixation (in Round Table)
Norman V. McCullough
College English, Vol. 24, No. 2. (Nov., 1962), pp. 144-146.
Pg. 145: ...it was discovered that in the southern American English area _slipper spoon_ was preferred by around 41.4% of the informants; _show slipper_ by 13.1%; _shoe horn_ by 37.6%; _shoe spoon_ by 5.9%; and _slipper horn_ by less than 1%.


(WWW.NEWSPAPERARCHIVE.COM)
  Decatur Review  Tuesday, November 29, 1921 Decatur, Illinois
...cuticle knife, nail file, buffer, SLIPPER SPOON, jewel case, cloth brush..

  Decatur Review  Thursday, December 15, 1921 Decatur, Illinois
...knife, cream jar, nail file, buffer, SLIPPER SPOON, jewel case, cloth brush..

 Thursday, January 04, 1923 Decatur, Illinois
...Hook. Ivory Cuticle Knife, a Handy SLIPPER SPOON. This set usually sells..

  Decatur Review  Friday, June 11, 1926 Decatur, Illinois
...Saws made of anold knife and of a SLIPPER SPOON were found concealed. The..

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NYPL & BIG APPLE FEST

More on the neverending, completely thankless saga.


BIG APPLE FEST--After my NY Times article came out at the end of August, I wrote to the Big Apple Fest to remove the whore hoax from its web page. No response. So I wrote to the Public Advocate. Why is our tourism bureau doing this? No response. Finally, the Public Advocate got a Big Apple Fest response yesterday. In another development, www.bigapplefest.org appears to be off the web:

We have received the following e-mail from the Big Apple Fest in response to your e-mail.

"The Big Apple Fest has no position on which story is accurate as to how New York got it’s (sic) name The Big Apple.  We have listed stories that appeared in New York Encyclopedia and the Society for New York City History.  These accounts are on our website as a topic for discussion only."

Jon Clay
Managing Director
Big Apple Fest

I hope this answers your concerns.  Thank you for contacting the Public Advocate.

Alethia Mays
Office of the Public Advocate
Ombudsman Services
212-669-4301
amays at pubadvocate.nyc.gov
ombudsman at pubadvocate.nyc.gov

(The Toronto Globe & Mail had said, in August, that the Big Apple Fest "stood by" the whore story. Now it's a "topic for discussion." Too bad the Big Apple Fest site is down so we can't "discuss"--ed.)


NYPL--The last New York City organization to recognize that "the Big Apple" was solved in the New York Public Library remains the NYPL. Earlier this year, the whore hoax was removed from the NYPL's (branch libraries) "Best of the Web." My web site is now there.

The pathetic NYPL Research Library web page is still there, but the branch library's links have now been placed on the Research Library's definition. I recognized the slight change from a web site "referrer" hit today:

http://www.nypl.org/branch/manhattan/index2.cfm?Trg=1&d1=865
Why is New York City called the Big Apple?
Alternate explanations from Barry Popik and the Gotham Center for New York City History.


http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/faq.html
How did New York City come to be known as "The Big Apple"?

Alternate explanations from Barry Popik and the Gotham Center for New York City History.

There is no single, authoritative answer as to why New York City is known as The Big Apple. That the term is now widely known may be due to a tourism publicity campaign launched by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau in 1971.

 Certainly, the term was used before that. The most recent research traces the phrase back to a book published in 1909. In a New York Times article of February 1, 1989, David Shulman refers to The Wayfarer in New York, a collection of essays edited by Edward S. Martin. On page xiv of that book, Mr. Martin wrote that the rest of the country "inclines to think the big apple gets a disproportionate share of the national sap." This is the earliest use of the term yet brought to our attention.

 Previously, the phrase had been linked to jazz slang, or to the popular dance named the Big Apple. The Dictionary of American Slang (Wentworth and Flexner) and The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins both trace the phrase in this way, but this only takes it back as far as the 1930s.

 John Ciardi (New York Times, 7/19/89) relates the phrase to the Spanish term "manzana principal," which denotes a city's main section. He goes on to say: "Translated as Big Apple by New Orleans jazzmen around 1900 with the sense "the bit time," the idiom passed into show bizz..."

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OT: GOOGLE'S "SIMILAR PAGES"

I checked Google's "similar pages" for my web site, www.barrypopik.com. Maybe someone can explain to me how these appear?

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