Salon on "fugly"

[Grant Barrett]

On Mar 8, 2005, at 17:06, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:58:24PM -0500, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>>  Has anything earlier than the 1984 HDAS cite been
>> found?
> Yes, there's a 1970 quote in _The F-Word_ from an Australian
> source.  I think it's Australian at least--I can't find the
> source at the moment. Definitely non-US.

Pipped by the man himself.

I'd like to see what Roly Sussex has on "fugly." In the article linked
below he writes that he has a database of 10,000 citations for
Americanisms; I can only imagine what he has for Australianisms.

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3109

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org