Magazine initiative from Google Book Search

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:35:41PM -0500, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think the best way to dip in to the new archive is to go to Advanced Search
> > and restrict your search to magazines (along with a date range).
>
> Here's a little taste of what's archived now:
>
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=37IDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA80
> Review of "The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim" by Preston Wilcox
> _Black World_, May 1972, p. 80
> A theory of Black social systems: Fuck over no one so you will not have to worry
> about whose going to fuck over you. The "unfucked-over" are both unfuckable and
> have no need to fuck over anybody else.
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>
> Note the use of "fuck over [Pronoun]" rather than "fuck [Pronoun] over", a
> feature of BE that Wilson discussed in a Sep. 2007 thread (somewhat to the
> bafflement of Dennis, Ron and others):
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0709D&L=ads-l&P=23064

and which is in HDAS, OED, F-Word to 1961, in AAVE use.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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