Q: Dating slang; denerdify

[Joel S. Berson]

Chris, please forgive me for neglecting to thank you in my previous
message.  Google Groups has been useful:  I've also just found
"denerdify" in 1996 (in quotes).  Too bad it doesn't permit wildcards.

And thanks also, Fred.

Joel

At 10/19/2008 01:37 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>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:
>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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>>On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:52:22 -0400, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>>wrote:
>> >
>> > 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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