[Ads-l] push comes to shove

[Bill Mullins]

The subject phrase was discussed five years ago:
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2010-February/
and many early cites came seemed to come from black speakers/writers.
The Indianapolis Recorder is a black newspaper, and its archivists commented on the phrase after Ben Zimmer spoke about in on NPR:
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/collections/Irecorder

 		 	   		  
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