Gold Medal for Antedating

[Joel S. Berson]

Fred, I knew you'd undermine me somehow ...  :-)

And Jon Lighter has informed me that someone took "salt" away from me
and Hawthorne -- no, not the recent "salt" (v) but "experienced
sailor".  (I took it away from Dana.)

Joel

At 9/10/2010 10:22 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>According to the September 2002 OED News, for the current revision
>of the OED someone antedated the word "momentum" from 1699 to pre-1150.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
>
>
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>From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
>Joel S. Berson [Berson at ATT.NET]
>Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 12:43 PM
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: shagging & fucking (once more)
>
>At 9/5/2010 07:13 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> >On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 10:00:55PM -0400, George Thompson wrote:
> > > >From Jesse Sheidlower
> > >
> > > > _Shagging_ is used as a noun here, so while it doesn't
> > > > antedate the 1788 verb (although we now have a 1770 example of
> > > > the verb), it does constitute a whopping 198-year antedating
> > > > of _shagging_ n. in OED2.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Is this a record?
> >
> >No, but it's very impressive.
> >
> >Joel Berson supplied a 325-year antedating for _piss-house_ on
> >this very list....
> >
> >Jesse Sheidlower
> >OED
>
>And via a secondary source on to a court transcript, George.
>
>Jesse, I haven't received my gold medal yet.  George can compete for
>the silver.
>
>Joel
>
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