[Ads-l] "Eighty-six" (1929)

[Stephen Goranson]

Maybe irrelevant, but on the chance that it's not:
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, v.23 n.10, July, 1927, p. 27/1
Class of 1896
"The class headquarters were at Mrs. B. V. Child's, 160 [or 100]North
Professor Street, where the old '86 flag told passers-by: "We're not dead!
Nix! Nix! Eighteen-hundred-and-eighty-six!"

sg

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Oberlin_Alumni_Magazine/VWTnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1

On Fri, May 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM Ben Zimmer <
00001aae0710f4b7-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> Barry Popik discovered the previous earliest known citation for
> "eighty-six" in soda-jerk jargon (Walter Winchell, 1933), and now he has
> antedated that with this 1929 find.
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> https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette-eight-six-or/196667688/
> Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 10, 1929, p. 8, col. 6
> "Pittsburghesque" by Charles F. Danver
> The Soda Jerker's Code.
> [...]
> "Eighty-six!" (All out.)
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>
> Shared by Barry on the socials:
> https://bsky.app/profile/barrypopik.bsky.social/post/3mksc73zwes2c
> https://x.com/barrypopik/status/2050211318297153712
>
> --bgz
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