"Gray Thursday" (Thanksgiving Day as shopping day)

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake wrote:
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>> By the way, I know several of you (most notably John Baker and Barry
>> Popik) have also been interested in the origins of "Black Friday."  I
>> was pleased to see that *Business Week*, relying on Ben Zimmer's
>> excellent review last year of then-available "Black Friday" data, has
>> now joined others in accepting the term's true origins, even going as
>> far as explaining how retailers and PR folks worked to spin "Black
>> Friday" into something positive.
>>
>> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-20/the-branding-of-black-friday
>>
>> With that, I think our work is done.
>
> Doing my part to get the word out:
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> http://radioboston.wbur.org/2012/11/22/black-friday
>
> (The interview was also an opportunity to talk about the Hornism
> "etymythology.")
>
> This piece also links to my Word Routes column:
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> http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/black-friday-a-history-of-violence.html

One more:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2012/1122/Black-Friday-Liveblog-Why-do-we-call-it-Black-Friday-anyway

--bgz

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