[Ads-l] quiz and nytimes

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Stephen is certainly on the right track with his comment
about the word quiz. Might I now draw attention to two items
which, together, treat the etymology of quiz in some detail:
1.  PASCAL TREGUER and GERALD COHEN: Possible origin of
18th century quiz [with the meaning] person of peculiar
or ridiculous appearance.   Comments on Etymology,
April 2019, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 2-25.

2. GERALD COHEN: QUIZ - How did its meaning change from
someone or something ridiculous to informal test?
Comments on Etymology, Oct. 2020, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 2-4.

I will check with Pascal and see if these items can be put online.
Btw (side note), his overall research is extraordinary.

Gerald Cohen, editor
Comments on Etymology

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Subject: quiz and nytimes

If I recall correctly. I read an article in NYT, to which I am a subscriber=
, on the origin of quiz, to which I replied suggesting that queer (odd) plu=
s phiz (physiognomy) contracted was worth considering, but now no comment, =
unlike before, is allowed.
But I may be mistaken.
Stephen Goranson

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