Q: Dating; Engrish 1985- (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Taking "Engrish" farther back  . . .

[Letter to the Editor] HARRY KIRI.  _The Washington Post_ Nov 26, 1942;
pg. 12 col 5.

"Referring to esteemed editoriar regarding correct speaking of
Guadarcanar, so sorrow.  Excuse prease.  Honorabre Editor make mistake.
Japanese have one smarr Engrish difficurty.  Cannont say one useress
retter.  Retter R can say very fine.  When conquer Engrand and America,
our Emperor strike this useress retter out of arphabet.   Wirr be
reguration of Heaven."




"On the Town" Al Ricketts, _Pacific Stars And Stripes_, 08/17/1962 p. 11
col 1.

"Yukiji Asaoka, the second Japanese thrush (Izumi Yukimura was the
first) to appear on the Dinah Shore Show drew SRO crowds during her
stint at the New Latin Quarter last week.  She has a big voice and fine
stage presence, but her Engrish could stand some work."


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> 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
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> http://groups.google.com/group/net.bizarre/browse_thread/threa
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> Joel
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> 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:
> > >
> > > 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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