Q: Dating; Engrish 1985-

[Joel S. Berson]

The ordering seems to be reverse chronological?

Trying this and successively narrowing the end date, however, the
earliest hit I get is Jan. 29, 1985 (even when I tell Google to stop
at 1984!):  http://tinyurl.com/5zdcra

http://groups.google.com/group/net.bizarre/browse_thread/thread/be9f62415a300042/a9c9a4a9f3eafbea?hl=en&lnk=st&q=engrish#a9c9a4a9f3eafbea

Joel

At 10/19/2008 12:55 PM, Chris Waigl wrote:
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>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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