black Friday

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>
> Here's a link to a proposed etymology for "black Friday," via Andrew
> Sullivan's The Dish.

This link, I take it:

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/11/black-fridays-rebranding.html

Sullivan links to The Week, which in turn links to a Marketplace piece
from last year that relied on (but did not cite) my Word Routes column
on Bonnie's research. Bonnie did leave a comment on the Marketplace
page, though:

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/commentary/history-black-friday

--bgz

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