my bad (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> When this came up last year people had trouble finding a still earlier
> discussion in the Archives.
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> Now I can't find last year's discussion.

Here is the first post in the thread; follow it for the rest of the
discussion.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0905E&L=ADS-L&D=0&P=62
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Another earlier thread:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9909A&L=ADS-L&D=0&P=16
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And still earlier, from the googled archives:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22my+bad%22&domains=www.americandialect.
org&hq=inurl%3Aamericandialectarchives




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> Except in my mailbox.
>
> "My bad" was print in 1980, reported as being a common term among
> mostly
> inner-city teenagers in pick-up basketball games. It took quite a few
> years to catch on in the media.
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> I didn't come across another ex. of "my bad" until 1994-95, when it
> began t=
> o
> become common. If I had, I'd have made a note of it.
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> JL
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> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Paul Frank
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> > When did people start saying "my bad"? I never heard it in high
> school
> > in the late 70s in England and in university in the early 80s in
> > England. And I can't really remember when I first heard it in grad
> > school in the U.S., but it was probably in the early 90s. Or maybe I
> > wasn't listening and people have been saying it for centuries.
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> > Paul
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> > Paul Frank
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> > Hu=E9moz - Aigle - Neuch=E2tel, CH
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