avoidance

[victor steinbok]

It was just an item that popped up in unrelated search. I thought I'd share
it, even if it's not a significant date.

VS-)

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:25 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
> >>
> >> jass-ack for jack-ass
> >
> > I've found examples back to 1872 (early examples clustered in Ohio):
> >
> > http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0412A&L=ADS-L&P=R207
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >
> > HDAS, 1845-1968.
>
> Whoops, never mind.
>
> --bgz
>

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