"go bazooka"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>
> >  At 2:29 PM -0500 2/25/08, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >  >"Go berserk" is often pronounced /b@'z at rk/. Google has about *246,000* hits
> >  >for "bezerk".
> >
> >  ...whence also the popular mot in the 60's referring to "Beserkley"
> >  (California).
>
>  Fox News invariably refers to Berkley that way (city and campus).
>
>   HDAS: 1976 (earlier exx. undoubtedly now findable).

Newspaperarchive has references to Matthew Kaufman's Beserkley record
label back to July 14, 1974 (Oakland Tribune).


--Ben Zimmer

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