my bad

[Jonathan Lighter]

Jesse,

WorldCat dates Wielgus & Wolff's _In-Your-Face Basketball Book_ to 1980.

That's where I saw it. I didn't include "my bad" in the B's because there
was only one cite and it sounded too moronicever to catch on.

Never say, "too moronic."

I trust all is well in the Large Apple.

Jon

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

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> Jon,
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> What's the 1980 example? I can't recall having seen a print
> example that early, and if it's in the archives, I've missed
> it there too....
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> Thanks.
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> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
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> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:37:27AM -0400, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > When this came up last year people had trouble finding a still earlier
> > discussion in the Archives.
> >
> > Now I can't find last year's discussion.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I didn't come across another ex. of "my bad" until 1994-95, when it began
> to
> > become common. If I had, I'd have made a note of it.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu
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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.
> > >
> > > Paul
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