Q: Dating "recent" slang and other words

[Shapiro, Fred]

Also LexisNexis, Factiva, Google News.

Fred Shapiro



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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Waigl [chris at LASCRIBE.NET]
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Subject: Re: Q: Dating "recent" slang and other words

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:52:22 -0400, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
wrote:
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> Where would I look (Internet preferably) to find datings for early
> use of recent English words, such as "Engrish" and "denerdify"?

One quick and cheap way of doing this is using Google Groups search. You
can restrict your search to a date interval and order results by date (a
bit dodgy, I've found).

'Engrish' first shows up in 1996 (http://tinyurl.com/6rfojq).

Chris Waigl

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