Actionable Offenses (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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The Internet Archive has a number of Edison cylinders digitized and
online.  Maybe something useful there, as well.



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> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse Sheidlower
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:24 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Actionable Offenses
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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Actionable Offenses
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> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:55:18AM -0500, George Thompson wrote:
>
> > Actionable Offenses is the title of a CD containing "indecent
> >phonograph recordings from the 1890s".
> >(Archeophone Records, 1007) All recordings were done on
> cylinders; some
> >are now to be found in the archives of the Edison company, the rest
> >belong to a private collector.  None are specifically dated; the
> >booklet accompanying the CD (58
> >pages) discusses learnedly the evolution of the technique of sound
> >recording during the 1890s, and surveys the careers of the two men
> >known to have made some of the records.
>
> [...]
>
> >  I'm returning the CD to the library for the time being --
> I'm about
> > to leave on a short vacation, and don't have the time to do
> more with
> > this.  If anyone else has access to it, have at it.
> Otherwise, more
> > anon, which is to say, toward the end of January.  An
> indication from
> > JL, JG or JS as to which words should be given in context would be
> > useful.
>
> George,
>
> Thanks for calling this to our attention. Clearly I'll have
> to get a copy and take it all--some useful stuff here.
>
> BTW we now have an 1888 example of _pecker_, but it needs to
> be checked, which is why it's not in OED Online yet.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
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