Jane Austen and slang - article in UK newspaper

[Laurence Horn]

On Jun 10, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Dan Goodman wrote:

> On 06/10/2013 08:42 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
>
>> FYI Monitoring Popular Media: The article excerpt below from The Daily
>> Mail UK website includes claims about slang and Jane Austen's use of
>> language.
>>
>> Title: The queen of modern slang: Jane Austen is revealed to have
>> coined phrases we use everyday
>
> Perhaps there's confusion here between being first to use phrases in
> print, and coining them?

Indeed; cf. Shakespeare, W.

LH
>
>
>>   Subtitle 01: Oxford professor revealed how much Austen has
>> influenced our language
>>   Subtitle 02: Is quoted 1,640 times in the latest edition of the
>> Oxford English Dictionary
>>   Subtitle 03: Came up with the phrase: ‘if I’ve told you once, I’ve
>> told you 100 times’.
>> Website: Mail Online dailymail.co.uk
>> Author: Daily Mail Reporter
>> Date: 26 May 2013
>>
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331445/The-queen-modern-slang-Jane-Austen-revealed-coined-phrases-use-everyday.html
>>
>> [Begin excerpt]
>> Shut up, dirt cheap and dog-tired would roll off the tongue of any
>> Tom, Dick or Harry today.
>>
>> But you wouldn’t have expected them to flow from the pen of genteel
>> Jane Austen.
>>
>> Now the increasing influence of Austen on contemporary English has
>> been highlighted.
>>
>> Oxford professor Charlotte Brewer told the Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye
>> that while Austen had a great influence on the first Oxford English
>> Dictionary published in 1928, she is quoted 1,640 times in the most
>> recent edition.
>>
>> Entries include 321 phrases from her 1815 novel Emma, which includes
>> ‘dinner-party’ and ‘brace yourself’.
>>
>> She also came up with ‘if I’ve told you once, I’ve told you 100 times’.
>> [End excerpt]
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