[Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"

[Laurence Horn]

I was actually living within walking distance of Foxboro Stadium and Racetrack then (in Wrentham, the next town over) and even walked over to watch the Patriots play football but, alas, I did not attend the races that day. If only I’d known there was lexical antedating to (dis)confirm…

LH 

> On May 18, 2024, at 4:30 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>> 
>> The 1976 "Miracle Bromance" is unquestionably a typo.
>> 
>> Fred Shapiro
>> 
>> 
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>> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2024 11:57 AM
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> Subject: Re: Possible Antedating of "Bromance"
>> 
>> A horse named "Miracle Bromance" ran at Foxboro on 9/14/1976 (per the Quincy MA Patriot Ledger 9/15/1976, p 33.)
>> 
>> There are several back issues of Big Brother here:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/skateboarding/comments/26jtfd/download_early_issues_of_big_brother_magazine_and/<https://www.reddit.com/r/skateboarding/comments/26jtfd/download_early_issues_of_big_brother_magazine_and/>
>> 
>> I paged through a couple and didn't find "bromance".
>> 
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>> ________________________________
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>> The OED's earliest citation for the word "bromance" is dated 2001.  According to Wikipedia, "Dave Carnie<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Carnie<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Carnie>> is credited with coining the term as editor of the skateboard magazine Big Brother<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(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.
>> 
>> Fred Shapiro
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