Engrish, 1942

[Joel S. Berson]

!!  Will this be added to OED3?  Perhaps in brackets?  And credited
to its author? :-)

Joel

At 10/21/2008 11:29 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
>Caveats: NONE
>
>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."
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society
> > [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joel S. Berson
> > Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:38 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Q: Dating; Engrish 1985-
> >
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> > -----------------------
> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> > Subject:      Re: Q: Dating;  Engrish 1985-
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > -----------------
> >
> > 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/threa
> > d/be9f62415a300042/a9c9a4a9f3eafbea?hl=en&lnk=st&q=engrish#a9c
> > 9a4a9f3eafbea
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > At 10/19/2008 12:55 PM, Chris Waigl wrote:
> > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> > >
> > >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
> > >
> > >------------------------------------------------------------
> > >The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> >
>Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
>Caveats: NONE
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org