nom, nomming, nom nom

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:09 AM, victor steinbok wrote:
>
> On 8/6/11, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I covered _nom_ in "Among the New Words" (with Charles Carson) in the latest
>> edition of American Speech (86:192-214).
>>
>> http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/vol86/issue2/index.dtl
[...]
>> Citations are provided for _nom_, _nom nom_, _om nom nom_, _nom nom nom_,
>> etc. The earliest we found is from 2002:
>>
>> 2002 June 30 Siobhan Perricone rec.food.cooking (Usenet newsgroup)
>> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking/msg/a6a350ac3a7492b9   I
>> just slather on the butter thickly, and they never last long enough to get soggy.
>> OM NOM NOM!
>
> This one is not before 2002 (2010), but might be of interest. And it
> does not imply gluttony ;-)
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=K8qzZ7NWsvgC&pg=PA105

Yes, we included that in the quotation paragraph for "nom" in "Among
the New Words." See AmSp for more.

(Everyone here subscribes to AmSp right? :-)

--bgz

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