meh!
Arnold Zwicky
zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Fri Jul 6 16:43:04 UTC 2012
On Jul 6, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:
> Neither in OED nor findable in the Archives.
>
> I heard it once or twice about a decade ago, but now I've heard it several
> times in the last few weeks, and you can buy a T-shirt that says it.
BZ. 6/8/06: Meh-ness to society:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003238.html
BZ, 2/16/07: Awwa, meh, feh, heh:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004205.html
BZ, 11/21/08: The “meh” wars:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=855
BZ on Visual Thesaurus, 11/21/08: Mailbag Friday: “Meh”
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1614/
BZ, 11/24/08: The “meh” wars, part 2:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=865
AZ, 12/1/11: Meh again:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3593
ML, 12/22/11: Words for ‘meh’:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3653
BZ, 2/26/12: Three scenes in the life of “meh”:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3806
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list