[Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 30 Jun 2024 to 1 Jul 2024 (#2024-172)
Paul Meier
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Topics of the day:
1. Tea, and more (6)
2. NARNiHS 2025 Annual Meeting
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 05:45:02 +0000
From: Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM<mailto:amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM>>
Subject: Tea, and more
The Feb. 1977 issue of "Right On!" is for sale on ebay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/355709881559
And the Table of Contents is pictured. One of the features is listed:
"And That's The 'T'": Soul Train Column . . . . . . .22
It also can be found in the Mar, Jun and Nov 1977 issues.
Ebay listings are ephemeral, but this Aug 1977 issue from the Worthpoint archive may last longer:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/right-magazine-1977-4648071023
Feb 1977
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/right-magazine-1977-volume-muhammad-4690434028
Apr 1977
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/right-magazine-exclusive-edition-4647564276
Mar 1977 (hard to read)
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/right-magazine-march-1977-4612573031
Jun 1977 (hard to read)
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/right-magazine-1977-june-4580736277
Jul 1977
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/right-magazine-1977-jackson-five-1885570617
Sep 1977
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/right-magazine-1977-4654991022
Oct 1977
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/right-magazine-october-1977-michael-4597629600
Nov 1977
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/right-magazine-1977-latoya-jackson-1885728207
I was not able to examine a complete run of Tables of Contents, but I was able to find a Dec 1976 issue and it did not run the column, nor did any other 1976 issue that I was able to find.
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From: Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com<mailto:amcombill at hotmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2024 8:48 PM
To: American Dialect Society <ads-l at listserv.uga.edu<mailto:ads-l at listserv.uga.edu>>
Subject: Tea, and more
There's a book about the TV show "Soul Train" called "The Hippest Trip in America" by Nelson George (found on archive.org). It says, in reference to the black-targeted magazine "Right On!", "To emphasize this connection between the show and the magazine, dancers would often be hired to write for Right On! For a time in the 1970s, popular dancer Little Joe Chism wrote a column called "And That's the Tea," “tea” being LA slang at the time for gossip, which mostly related happenings at Hollywood parties."
Joe Chism was gay, FWIW.
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 03:24:51 -0400
From: Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM<mailto:bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM>>
Subject: Re: Tea, and more
The Feb. 1977 issue is also on Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/right-on-v-06n-04-1977-02.-laufer-d-m/page/n19/mode/2up
The column "And That's the 'T'" begins: "As I look back on the year 1976 and the Soul Train show, I have witnessed and been a part of many things. I have had some great times on the show and in this article I would like to share with you some of the 'T' I have been a part of and some of the personalities I have been involved with."
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 1:45 AM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com<mailto:amcombill at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> The Feb. 1977 issue of "Right On!" is for sale on ebay:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/355709881559
>
> And the Table of Contents is pictured. One of the features is listed:
>
> "And That's The 'T'": Soul Train Column . . . . . . .22
>
> It also can be found in the Mar, Jun and Nov 1977 issues.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com<mailto:amcombill at hotmail.com>>
> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2024 8:48 PM
> To: American Dialect Society <ads-l at listserv.uga.edu<mailto:ads-l at listserv.uga.edu>>
> Subject: Tea, and more
>
> There's a book about the TV show "Soul Train" called "The Hippest Trip
> in America" by Nelson George (found on archive.org). It says, in
> reference to the black-targeted magazine "Right On!", "To emphasize
> this connection between the show and the magazine, dancers would often
> be hired to write for Right On! For a time in the 1970s, popular
> dancer Little Joe Chism wrote a column called "And That's the Tea,"
> “tea” being LA slang at the time for gossip, which mostly related happenings at Hollywood parties."
>
> Joe Chism was gay, FWIW.
>
>
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 12:10:57 +0200
From: Daphne Preston-Kendal <dpk at NONCEWORD.ORG<mailto:dpk at NONCEWORD.ORG>>
Subject: Re: Tea, and more
Here’s a ‘spill the T’ from 1990 for a black LGBT audience:
https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=_xgEAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22spill+the+T%22
Looking through the library records for the editors papers,
https://digitalarchives.broward.org/digital/collection/p16146coll20
the 1990 dating for issues 14 to 25 appears to be likely correct. But as far as I can tell they have only scanned the covers and not the contents of the magazine.
Daphne
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 14:33:04 +0000
From: Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM<mailto:amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM>>
Subject: Tea, and more
Thanks, Ben. I had looked in the Internet Archive for issues, but apparently not hard enough.
And apropos of nothing, wow the prices that back issues of Right On! sold for on ebay are incredible.
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 14:40:59 +0000
From: Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM<mailto:amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM>>
Subject: Tea, and more
> Here’s a ‘spill the T’ from 1990 for a black LGBT audience:
>
> https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=_xgEAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithin
> volume&q=%22spill+the+T%22
> Looking through the library records for the editors papers,
> https://digitalarchives.broward.org/digital/collection/p16146coll20
> the 1990 dating for issues 14 to 25 appears to be likely correct. But
> as far as I can tell they have only scanned the covers and not the contents of the magazine.
>
>
> Daphne
The contents are available on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/blk_15/page/n32/mode/1up?q=%22spill+the+t%22
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 17:52:18 +0200
From: Daphne Preston-Kendal <dpk at NONCEWORD.ORG<mailto:dpk at NONCEWORD.ORG>>
Subject: Re: Tea, and more
On 1 Jul 2024, at 16:40, Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com<mailto:amcombill at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> The contents are available on the Internet Archive:
> https://archive.org/details/blk_15/page/n32/mode/1up?q=%22spill+the+t%<https://archive.org/details/blk_15/page/n32/mode/1up?q=%22spill+the+t%25>
> 22
Aha, thanks!
IA also has an earlier ‘spill the T’ 1985 – also a black gay author, Billi Gordon – with an etymological tall tale:
https://archive.org/details/billigordonsyouv00bill/page/2/mode/2up?q=%22spill+the+T%22
Laurence Horn mentioned ‘tea’ as in ‘tea room’ as gay slang, but it might be worth also considering the ‘tea dance’ as perhaps etymologically relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_dance_(gay_event)
And of course there is T as in trans, T as in testosterone (as taken by trans men), and tea was apparently British gay slang for urine (according to Rodgers’s Queen’s Vernacular as quoted in GDoS).
Daphne
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 19:19:25 +0200
From: NAm Research Network in HistSocio <narnihistsoc at GMAIL.COM<mailto:narnihistsoc at GMAIL.COM>>
Subject: NARNiHS 2025 Annual Meeting
*North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS)
2025 Annual Meeting: Call for abstracts*
Please find below our Call for Abstracts for the next Annual Meeting in 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!
*Call for Abstracts*
*NARNiHS 2025North American Research Network in Historical SociolinguisticsSeventh Annual Meeting*
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Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics!
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(NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Seventh Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2025) in Philadelphia, Thursday, January 9 – Sunday, January 12, 2025.
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Late abstracts will not be considered.
NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope.
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