[Ads-l] Big Sky

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, "Big Dome Country" implies they're proud of their eggheads.

JL

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 12:30 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Aug 30, 2021, at 11:59 AM, Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
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> >> -----Original Message-----
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> >> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of
> >
> >> Jonathan Lighter
> >
> >> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2021 11:15 AM
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> >> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >
> >> Subject:  Big Sky
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> >> From around 1950, the state of Montana has embraced the promotional
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> >> nickname of "Big Sky Country."  There's even a tourist town called Big
> Sky.
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> >> Modern use of the phrase comes from the title of A. B. Guthrie's
> best-selling
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> >> novel, _The Big Sky_ (1947), filmed in 1952.
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> >> JL
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> > OED has 1953 for "Big Sky Country".
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> > 1948 Butte MT _Montana Standard_ 12 Nov 13/1 (newspapers.com)
> > Names considered were "Big Sky Country," "The Big Dome Country,”
>
> They probably realized that some day that one would be too Stephen King
> for them...
>
> > "Montana's Magicland" and several others.
>
> …and that one too Disneyfied. And now “Big Sky” has its own eponymous TV
> miniseries, so it worked out for the best.
>
> LH
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