[Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"

Sat May 18 20:30:07 UTC 2024

Fred Shapiro wrote:
> The 1976 "Miracle Bromance" is unquestionably a typo.

It does appear that the name of the horse was "Miracle Romance"
instead of "Miracle Bromance". There are many matches in GenealogyBank
for the horse name "Miracle Romance" in the 1970s.

On September 14, 1976 the results of the Foxboro race were reported in
The Providence Journal. The names of the participant horses matched
those listed in the Patriot Ledger except for one horse. "Miracle
Romance" was listed instead of "Miracle Bromance".

Newspaper: The Providence Journal
Newspaper Location: Providence, RI
Date: September 14, 1976
Article: Foxboro entries: Fourth
Quote Page B-13, Column 2
Database: GenealogyBank

[Begin excerpt]
Brown Buddy
Miracle Romance
Justaplain Isaac
Bo Bo Ranger
Piper Princess
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 1:56 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> The 1976 "Miracle Bromance" is unquestionably a typo.
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> Fred Shapiro
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> A horse named "Miracle Bromance" ran at Foxboro on 9/14/1976 (per the Quincy MA Patriot Ledger 9/15/1976, p 33.)
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> There are several back issues of Big Brother here:
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> I paged through a couple and didn't find "bromance".
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> The OED's earliest citation for the word "bromance" is dated 2001.  According to Wikipedia, "Dave Carnie<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDave_Carnie&data=05%7C02%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7Cabdcd03004294e2ac2d708dc768a2358%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638515582882803116%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=bfgeZyVfE6YONknBLUbjwxf85Gu4qrc3KmLO6q2TPlw%3D&reserved=0<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Carnie>> is credited with coining the term as editor of the skateboard magazine Big Brother<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBig_Brother_&data=05%7C02%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7Cabdcd03004294e2ac2d708dc768a2358%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638515582882807755%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KLqiwmT9PosFvSf9GugxCxJHiEiRSbi2smOFJGXb5M8%3D&reserved=0(magazine<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_>)> in the 1990s to refer specifically to the sort of relationships that develop between skaters who spent a great deal of time together."  I have not attempted to check on the accuracy or details of the Wikipedia statement.
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