[Ads-l] mask up

[Wilson Gray]

Note also the early appearance of _her's_ and _it's_.

When I was in Basic, back in the '50's, upon hearing the alarm-cry, "Gas!
Gas! Gas!," one's next act was to "mask up."

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 9:25 AM Joe Salmons <
000008f18d0e0c45-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> Yup, NgramViewer, searching for 'to mask up' to eliminate stuff like
> 'pushed her mask up',  shows stuff from the early 20th, like this:
>
>
> https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Siren/kuVFAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22to+mask+up%22&pg=PA258&printsec=frontcover
>
> And I will now use this phrase regularly.
> Joe
>
> On 5/29/20, 7:59 AM, "American Dialect Society on behalf of
> adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM" <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU on behalf of
> adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Phrase "mask up" might be very old – possible supplementary search
> terms: fire fighter, surgeon, nurse, bandit, desperado.
>
> Here is an instance circa 1996.
>
> Date: 1996 (Publication year visible in snippet)
> Year: All Night, All Day, Angels Watching Over Me - Page 152
> Author: Evelyn Bence
> Quote Page 152
> Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan
> Database: Google Books snippet; data may be inaccurate and should be
> verified with scans or hardcopy
>
> [Begin extracted text]
> Black, rolling smoke vented from the hole. I ordered my crew to mask up.
>
> We were beginning to pull hose off the pumper when the chief ran over
> to me. "Get upstairs quick , Lieutenant!" he said. "Use the back way.
> There's been screaming reported coming from up there."
> [End extracted text]
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 8:12 AM James Landau
> <00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
> >
> > This coinage was inevitable, but I first saw it yesterday on a sign on
> I-76 outside Camden, New Jersey:
> > GOING OUT?MASK UPDRIVING?BUCKLE UP
> > Please someone antedate "mask up", or OED will have to tag its citation
> with "Electronic sign on I-76".
> > Another sign on I-76 was "KEEP SOCIAL AND VEHICLE DISTANCING"
> >
> > James Landau
> > jjjrlandau at netscape.com
> >
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