[Ads-l] antedating impactful"

[Jonathan Lighter]

You're thinking of "GB."  ProQuest? "PQ."  Chronicling America? "CA."

And Internet Archive is "IA," the exact opposite of "AI."

JL

On Sun, Aug 2, 2026 at 8:14 AM Shapiro, Fred
<00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> "G." could be confused with "Google Books."
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Subject: antedating impactful"
>
> MW: 1939.
>
> (From now on I'll reference "Newspapers.com" as "N " and
> "GenealogyBank" as "G." )
>
> 1929 _Toronto Daily Star_ (Oct. 28) 2 [N]:  This penman-padre has it
> within his power to give to the world the story of one of the most
> impactful conversations two strong men ever had together.
>
> 1937 Ibid. (Feb. 23) 3 [N]: He replied by flinging in my face the
> impactful names of Pidgeon and Dickson and Parkes.
>
> This was one of the words we were warned in junior high (ca1960) never
> to use, because like to "contact" and to "impact," it was wielded only
> by semi-literate blockheads.
>
> JL
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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