bubkes/bupkis, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE



>
> As has been discussed on ADS-L--and just about everywhere else--there
> are multiple spellings of "bupkis". However, "bupkis" is the OED head
> spelling (with variants b[o/u][b/p]k[e/i/u]s[s]).
>
> Barry Popik has a post in the archives from May 17, 1999:
>
> > The RHHDAS has this Liebling citation under _bupkis_(1942). Is it
> > _bubkis_ or _bupkis_, 1941 or 1942?...ANGLISH/YINGLISH has "BUHPkis
n.
> > Literally, beans" on pg. 19. DREK! has "Bobkes (BUB-kis)--literally,
> > goat turds" on pg. 23. Bubkis, bupkis, beans, goat turds--let's call
> > the whole thing off!
>
>


And Stephen Goranson has taken "bupkis" back to 1937 in the ADS-L
archives.

_Catalogue of Copyright Entries Part 3:  Musical Compositions 1919 Vol
14 #13_ Washington, DC:  Government Printing Office, 1920  p 2218
lists a song by Rudy Wiedoeft called "Bupkis", registered between Jan
and Dec 1919:

http://books.google.com/books?id=p24cAQAAIAAJ&dq=bupkis&pg=PA2218#v=onep
age&q=bupkis&f=false




Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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