"wake goose"--(a) as the source or "waygoose" (b) apparent antedating

[Douglas G. Wilson]

On 3/5/2013 11:33 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
> ....
> Previously, in two posts, I suggested that waygoose came from wake goose. F=
> or the argument and examples see [1], both posts combined.
>
> Here's a case of an 1801 document with wake goose that an editor "corrected=
> ." [2]
>
> Anatoly Liberman discussed waygoose twice, before my suggestion. [3, 4]
>
> Here are several uses of wake goose from documents going back to the 1550s.=
>   [5]
>
> Stephen Goranson
> www.duke.edu/~goranson
>
> [1] http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=3Dind1211A&L=3DADS-L&P=
> =3DR1685&I=3D-3&d=3DNo+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches
>
> [2] http://books.google.com/books?id=3D-FwRAQAAMAAJ&pg=3DPA134&dq=3D%22wake=
> +goose%22&hl=3Den&sa=3DX&ei=3Dex02UePuKZLa8wSw44DoAg&ved=3D0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=3D=
> onepage&q=3D%22wake%20goose%22&f=3Dfalse
>
> [3] http://blog.oup.com/2006/07/bimonthly_glean/
>
> [4] http://blog.oup.com/2009/12/wayzgoose/
>
> [5] http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?id=3Duc1.31378007653192;view=
> =3D1up;seq=3D13;q1=3D%22wake%20goose%22;start=3D1;size=3D10;page=3Dsearch;o=
> rient=3D0
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I am interested, but links (2) and (5) above fail for me, probably
because the long URL's get damaged somehow in e-mailing. Maybe I'm not
the only one. Perhaps some TinyURL's or some such can be provided?

-- Doug Wilson

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