[Ads-l] Revising The F-Word

[Shapiro, Fred]

I'm sure you have this already, but please make sure to include the July 15, 1941 "snafu" citation discovered by Barry Popik.

Fred Shapiro


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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 11:08 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Revising The F-Word

I am happy to be able to announce that I'm now actively working on a new edition of The F-Word. I've posted about it on the Strong Language blog, with examples of 20 entries I've currently drafted, and a longer list of specific things I'm looking for:

https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstronglang.wordpress.com%2F2023%2F03%2F22%2Fhelp-revise-the-f-word%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7Cca949cf48a0c4ef389b608db2ae74f1e%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638150945204884060%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sYvwmPD49QHoQUauUltzySIVdW0GhPOa5ylzxg7ooPg%3D&reserved=0

I've done a lot of work so far; there are over 80 new items, and over 110 antedatings. But there's more to do! I've been grateful for comments, suggestions, and discussion of the word on ADS-L in the past, and I would be even more grateful for even more such right now! Seriously, anything anyone would be willing to say would be most appreciated: antedatings; suggestions for new entries; additional quotations; you want to see discussed in the introduction; corrections. And in particular, anything from my want-list: that's stuff that's harder to search, so people here might be better suited to help than the gen pop.

Thank you.

Jesse Sheidlower

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