[Ads-l] Yet Further Antedating of "Smog"

[Laurence Horn]

Also, a question for Fred: does the context in the Sentinel piece make it clear whether the non-British fog/smog in question was in Santa Cruz itself? Or is the suggestion that it’s the British variety that qualifies as “smog”, even though the lexical (as opposed to meteorological) blend itself originated stateside?

LH
> On Nov 20, 2019, at 10:18 AM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Right you are. I was taking  "facetiously...unpleasant" as modifying "pure
> white mist... than a 'Scotch Mist'" rather than "true British fog".
> 
> MAM
> 
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 10:01 AM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu> wrote:
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>> Doesn't "always colored" refer to the true British mist to which the
>> "morning fog" is being compared?
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>> MARGARET E WINTERS
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>> Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
>> Wayne State University
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>> mewinters at wayne.edu
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>> Subject: Re: Yet Further Antedating of "Smog"
>> 
>> Am I the only one scratching my head over "pure white mist... always
>> colored"?
>> 
>> MAM
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, 7:13 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> smog (OED 1905)
>>> 
>>> 1880 _Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel_ 3 July 3/5 (Newspapers.com)  The
>> morning
>>> fog ... is really not fog at all, but cloud of pure white mist, warmer
>> and
>>> much less wetting than a "Scotch Mist," not differing entirely from the
>>> true British fog, facetiously spelled "smog" because always colored and
>>> strongly impregnated with smoke, a mixture as unwholesome as it is
>>> unpleasant.
>>> 
>>> Fred Shapiro
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