"Quidditch" Not in OED (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jeff Prucher]

On Monday, July 21, 2014 10:01 AM, "Mullins, Bill CIV (US)" <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL> wrote:


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>The film Star Wars opened in May 1977. "The Force" entered the popular spee=
>ch soon after:
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>Baton Rouge _State Times_ 5/26/1978 p 3B
>"Adopting the theme "Use The Force -- Read," the city-parish library system=
>will begin enrollment for its summer reading program Wednesday."
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>Portland _Oregonian_  7/28/1978 p C6
>[classified ad] "THE FORCE IS WITH YOU.  The Portland Metaphyscial Church c=
>an teach you how to contact & use the force within you."
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>Kryptonite and "the force" have grown beyond their specific fictional uses.=
>  OTOH, I've never seen quidditch mentioned except in specific reference to=
>the Harry Potter universe.

Jesse alluded to this: http://www.usquidditch.org/
I bet more American college students know this meaning of "quidditch" than know what "korfball" is; if it persists in popularity, I imagine it'll show up in the OED eventually.

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>Shapiro, Fred
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>Subject: Re: "Quidditch" Not in OED
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>In the past I have used terms like "ewok" from Star Wars as examples of the=
>type of term I am thinking of.  It occurs to me that another example is th=
>e specific Star Wars sense of the word "force," which I think should be in =
>OED.
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>Fred Shapiro
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