Austintatious (Austin-tatious) (1970s?)

Thu Feb 8 15:52:21 UTC 2007

This word, Austintatious, is not pronouncable by the "awe-droppers"
differently from ostentatious (~aastinttaeshis as I hear it in m-w.com).

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.

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>Austintatious--23,400 Google hits
>Austen-tatious--13,000 Google hits
>Austentatious--10,200 Google hits
>Austintacious--5,180 Google hits
>Austin-tatious--3,530 Google hits
>Austentacious--1,430 Google hits
>...
>Maybe someone has an "Austintatious" hit on FACTIVA or another database?
>It=20=
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>means a pretentious display of the city of Austin (or of Jane Austen). The
>=20
>term is used a lot in these parts (Austin, Texas), but is not recorded in
>th=
>e =20
>HDAS.
>...
>...
>...
>_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/austintatious_austin_tatiou=
>s/
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>(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/austintatious_austin_tatiou=
>s/)=20
>...
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>Entry from February 08, 2007=20
>Austintatious (Austin-tatious)
>=20
>Austin is the capital of Texas; perhaps some people feel that it=E2=80=99s
>=20=
>=E2=80=9C
>ostentatious.=E2=80=9D The term =E2=80=9CAustintatious=E2=80=9D (or =E2=80=
>=9CAustin-tatious=E2=80=9D or sometimes  spelled =E2=80=9C
>Austintacious") has been used as an adjective and as a business name.
>The=20
>term dates from at least the mid-1970s.=20
>
>
>_Merriam-Webster_ (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/ostentatious) =20
>Main  Entry: os=C2=B7ten=C2=B7ta=C2=B7tious=20
>Pronunciation: -sh&s=20
>Function:  adjective=20
>: marked by or fond of conspicuous or vainglorious and sometimes
>pretentiou=
>s=20
>display=20
>
>_Google  Books_=20
>(http://books.google.com/books?vid=3DISBN0670122637&id=3DMwseAAAAMAAJ&q=3Dau=
>stintatious&dq=3Daustintatious&ie=3DISO-8859-1&pgis=3D1) =20
>Ancient Lights=20
>by Davis Grubb=20
>New York: Viking  Press=20
>1982=20
>Pg. 246:=20
>I do find Texans so=E2=80=94so Austintatious.=20
>
>_Google  Books_=20
>(http://books.google.com/books?vid=3DISBN0807849200&id=3DR6KBKY7stGwC&pg=3DR=
>A2-PA97&lpg=3DRA2-PA97&ots=3DY3Yd_vhSa-&dq=3Daustintatious&ie=3DISO-8859-1&s=
>ig
>=3DliMDNaxY0dtb7_953M5RC2NzAzY) =20
>Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular  Culture=20
>by Archie Green=20
>Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North  Carolina Press=20
>2001=20
>Pg. 97:=20
>Jack Jaxon offers the last picture of  the =E2=80=9CCozmic Cowboy=E2=80=9D=
>=E2=80=94a cartoon with=20
>running text published in the Austin  Sun (March 11, 1976) as a
>=E2=80=9Chan=
>dy guide for=20
>out-of-staters=E2=80=9D (fig. 10). A  =E2=80=9Cgenuine bad-ass redneck
>Texas=
>  cowpoke=E2=80=9D stares=20
>down a hairy, =E2=80=9Caustintatious,=E2=80=9D  jewelry-bedecked dude,
>while=
>  the artist=20
>explains their sartorial contrast.  =20
>
>_Google  Groups: rec.arts.books_=20
>(http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/browse_thread/thread/fe5e7ede=
>e6690403/7199be8bd9071752?lnk=3Dst&q=3Daustintatiou
>s&rnum=3D56&hl=3Den#7199be8bd9071752) =20
>Newsgroups: rec.arts.books=20
>From: _fran... at pangea.Stanford.EDU_ (mailto:fran... at pangea.Stanford.EDU)
>=20
>(Francis Muir)=20
>Date: 1996/02/25=20
>Subject: Re: Ted Samsel - Illuminati? =20
>
>Joann Zimmerman writes:=20
>
>... Paul, you=E2=80=99re way too damn late.  =E2=80=9CAustintatious,=E2=80=
>=9D or as my former=20
>non-compadre Samsel spells it, =E2=80=9CAustintacious,=E2=80=9D  has been
>in=
>  use for at least=20
>twenty years to describe the state of exemplifying =20
>that which is (or used to be, by now, nostalgia not being what it used to
>=20
>be, either, damn it) Austin, Texas. I could cite all sorts of very back
>issu=
>es =20
>indeed of the previously-mentioned, but alas,=20
>all-too-defunct weekly _Austin  Sun_, circa 1976. =20
>You may continue to use the word =E2=80=9CAustEntation=E2=80=9D as a
>synonym=
>  for Janeism, as=20
>  I am quite sure that we are all sufficiently Close Readers to tell the
>=20
>difference. (Vive la!)=20
>
>I remind the rabid that I coined the word  Austenitic precisely - well,=20
>partly - to distinguish things Janeian from capital  Texan notions.  It is
>a=
>lso=20
>true that in another world that Austenitic  steels - steels containing
>the=20
>crystaline form Austenite - are hard enough under  the somewhat adverse
>cond=
>itions=20
>met in the combustion chambers of internal  combustion engines that they
>are=
>=20
>used to make those valves of whose multiplicity  of number the
>manufacturers=
>  of=20
>automobiles have now become so inordinately  proud. It was, in fact, a=20
>Victorian Austen after whom Austenite is named, and I  dare say he=20
>was related to Our Jane, Paul always excepted. =20
>
>_Google  Groups: alt.fifty-plus.friends_=20
>(http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fifty-plus.friends/browse_thread/thread/=
>4fd8183678eaf2b5/0306525a543942ad?lnk=3Ds
>t&q=3Daustintatious&rnum=3D1&hl=3Den#0306525a543942ad) =20
>Newsgroups: alt.fifty-plus.friends =20
>From: JD Cooper=20
>Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:34:58  -0500=20
>Subject: Re: Who=E2=80=99s from Austin? AUSTIN-TATIOUS! =20
>
>=E2=80=9Caustintatious=E2=80=9D is a common word used among the natives in
>A=
>ustin. I  have=20
>always thought it was a funny =E2=80=98lil colloquialism. Mostly it refers
>t=
>o the =20
>high-brow lifestyles of the rich and famous thereabouts.=20
>
>(Trademark) =20
>Word Mark AUSTINTATIOUS=20
>Goods and Services (CANCELLED) IC 042. G &  S: NO GOODS/SERVICES STATEMENT
>O=
>N=20
>TRAM=20
>Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING =20
>Design Search Code=20
>Serial Number 81028958=20
>Filing Date 0000 =20
>Current Filing Basis UNKNOWN=20
>Original Filing Basis UNKNOWN =20
>Registration Number 1028958=20
>Registration Date December 30, 1975 =20
>Owner (REGISTRANT) Austintatious Artists UNKNOWN Austin TEXAS=20
>Register  PRINCIPAL=20
>Live/Dead Indicator DEAD=20
>Cancellation Date May 25, 1982 =20
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