my bad

[Jesse Sheidlower]

I've never seen any edition of the book; I was going on the
assertion that it was in the 1980 ed.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 02:19:20PM -0400, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> Jon,
>
> I have a copy of the 1980 edition of this book, and in a quick glance I don't see "my bad" in the glossary.  Do you remember seeing it in the glossary or somewhere else in the book?
>
> Fred
>
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> 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,
> >
> > 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....
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jesse Sheidlower
> > OED
> >
> > 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
> > >wrote:
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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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Paul Frank
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