[Ads-l] No soap

[Jonathan Lighter]

The naval theory sounds reasonable to me.

HDAS files have nothing earlier, BTW.

JL

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Parish, James <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:

> The "Link not found" page has links to recent posts, including "no soap",
> on the right.
>
>
> Jim Parish
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> Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2016 8:14:14 AM
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> Subject: Re: No soap
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> The "no soap" link doesn't work for me.
>
> JL
>
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Michael Quinion <
> michael.quinion at worldwidewords.org> wrote:
>
> > Among the pieces posted this weekend to my website is one on the
> > Americanism /no soap/: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-nos1.htmI . I
> > suggest an origin among US Navy recruits during the First World War. (A
> > couple of relevant citations antedating the OED are included in the piece
> > but I have others on file.) Comments on the suggested origin will be most
> > welcome.
> >
> > I've also written about the US sense of /nimrod/ as an inept person:
> > http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-nim1.htm . Comments likewise most
> > welcome.
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