[Ads-l] groj sale

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

By 1975 "Groj Sale" was in use in multiple states including Indiana,
Illinois, Nebraska, Texas, Pennsylvania, and New York.

Date: July 30, 1975
Newspaper: The Arlington Heights Herald
Newspaper Location: Arlington Heights, Illinois
Section: Classified Advertising
Category: 755 Garage/Rummage Sales
Quote Page 22
Database: Newspapers.com

https://www.newspapers.com/image/76914042/

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MOUNT Prospect -- 211
Northe Fairview, 30th, 31st,
1st. Groj Sale (Garage)
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Garson

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn’t know about Grojband. Wikipedia says it first aired in 2013. Here’s a “groj sale” sign with a date of 2012:
>
> http://www.rlcrabb.com/groj-sale/ <http://www.rlcrabb.com/groj-sale/>
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> Regardless of which came first, the fact that there’s a series will lead people to use it.
>
> BB
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>> On 23 Apr 2017, at 07:41, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>>> On Apr 23, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> Saw, for the first time, a sign for a groj sale yesterday. “Groj sale” gets 12K raw Google hits but is not in Wiktionary or the online Oxford dictionaries.
>>>
>> Or 129 actual g-hits, which is still more than I’d have thought.  I wondered if this respelling just occurred in this collocation, so I googled “in the garage” and found just 32 actual hits, so maybe there’s been a loss of transparency for some with “garage sale”, given that there’s often no garage involved.  “Grojband” gets 130 actual g-hits, but that’s mostly because of the eponymous animated series.
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