[Ads-l] groj sale

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

I should have written "North" instead of "Northe"

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MOUNT Prospect — 211
North Fairview, 30th, 31st,
1st. Groj Sale (Garage)
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On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 2:38 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> MOUNT Prospect -- 211
> Northe Fairview, 30th, 31st,
> 1st. Groj Sale (Garage)
> [End excerpt]
>
> 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/>
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>> On Apr 23, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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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