Penmanship [Was: Illinois bans male pronoun]

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:19 PM -0600 1/4/07, Rowan McMullin wrote:
>Is the related "my bad" more recent or older?
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>-Rowan

Older than '99 for sure.  For example, Bob Greene wrote a column in
the 11/3/97 Chicago Tribune and syndicated elsewhere in which he
cites various linguists, including yours truly, weighing in on the
origin and significance of "my bad".

LH

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>On 1/4/07, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>>At 1/4/2007 07:01 PM, Jon L. wrote:
>>>If anyone cares, I have _my dumb!_ back to 1999, antedating
>>>UrbanDictionary by five years.  Can anyone beat it ?
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>>I care!  I thought I was coining it.
>>Joel
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