tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post710448225735817987..comments2024-03-06T07:06:38.928-08:00Comments on JSBlog - Journal of a Southern Bookreader: Tattooed royalty ... perhapsRay Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-1785376782441900092011-09-07T16:45:43.719-07:002011-09-07T16:45:43.719-07:00Effete Americans! Harumph! "Such decorations,...Effete Americans! Harumph! <br>"Such decorations, to be appropriate, should be applied on the gluteal regions, as the indications of asinine American imitation of British customs." I wish I could write like this. "Asinine with gluteal regions" ..<br>To be sure.<br>"will be followed by all the snobs and dudes of England and New England"<br>May be first use of the word "dude"?Dr. Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-7559458336657584012011-09-07T17:13:25.321-07:002011-09-07T17:13:25.321-07:00The OED's first citation for this sense of &qu...The OED's first citation for this sense of "dude" is 1883, though "dudes" (= clothes) appears in English cant dictionaries at least a couple of centuries earlier. The US one is hard to track, as in the time slot of interest Google Books returns a lot of OCR errors for "duties" and "-cludes" (when "includes" spans a line break).Ray Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-66154337814741451032011-09-10T11:54:53.806-07:002011-09-10T11:54:53.806-07:00Must be where "duds" = clothes comes fro...Must be where "duds" = clothes comes fromDr. Cnoreply@blogger.com