[Ads-l] "Dude" item on NPR today (July 30)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Excellent article by Kat Lonsdorf. Congratulations to Gerald, Barry,
and Peter. Kudos for your generosity in providing a free electronic
copy of your book.
Garson

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM Cohen, Gerald L. <gcohen at mst.edu> wrote:
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> Today NPR posted and aired an item on the word "dude" for which I was one of the people interviewed.  My thanks to NPR and the reporter, Kat Lonsdorf, for their interest in the subject.
> The link to the article is
> https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/nx-s1-5482984/dude-big-lebowski-surfer-origin-etymology
>
> The article mentions a book that I co-authored in 2022 with independent scholars Barry Popik and Peter Reitan: Origin of the Term "Dude."  Both are extraordinary researchers.
> The book appears in hard-copy but is also available online at no cost:
> https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/artlan_phil_facwork/209/
> Btw, OED3 (online) gives a supposed 1877 attestation
> of "dude," but this is almost certainly a mistake.
> See pp. 21-25 of the co-authored book by Cohen/Popiki/Reitan.
>
> Gerald Cohen
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