Date:  Thu, 1 Jun 1995 22:21:02 -0400

From:  James C Stalker <stalker[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PILOT.MSU.EDU>

Subject: Re: 'rush hour'



. . . . .

> indirectly) traffic jams: the fact that people RUSH to work or back home

> during rush hours? Incidentally, in ON LANGUAGE CHANGE, Rudi Keller uses an



I had always assumed that this was the case, especially when I watched people

rush out of the office heading for the subways when I lived in NYC. It was a

stampede. Everyone did seem to be in a rush to get home or the bar or

whatever. The OED gives citations starting in 1898, so we have been rushing

for quite a long time!