Balderdash & Piffle (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Towse]

The folks at BBC/Balderdash & Piffle asked for help antedating certain
words, which information would then be used to update the OED
references. In fact, I think I first heard of it from something Fred
Shapiro posted here.

Easily amused by the sorting and surfing, I checked a few out and sent
a few antedate bits in and made the list. If you didn't send one in
=to the Balderdash & Piffle folks=, you wouldn't be on the
acknowledgments page. Simple.

That said, if you look at the backdating the OED online's showing for
Bloody Mary [ref:<http://www.oed.com/bbcwords/bloody.html>], your
references backdate theirs.

Maybe you should let the OED know.

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Sal

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On 10/19/07, Barry A. Popik <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
> I don't quite understand "Balderdash & Piffle." For example, 11 people  were
> credited for Bloody Mary," but the first citation was found me (uncredited)
> me? It took me a great many hours to find that, too. I don't get a dime.
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