Date:    Thu, 5 Mar 1998 20:30:06 -0500
<br>From:    "Bethany K. Dumas"  dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU 
<br>Subject: In Memoriam, Tom Clark
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<br>I did not know that Tom Clark was ill last Fall as we exchanged what turned
<br>out to be our last mail messages. I am saddened by his death and, like Ron
<br>Butters, will miss him as both colleague and friend.
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<br>I first met Tom at the First International Methods Conference in 1972; we
<br>all spent a week on Prince Edward Island discussing dialectology, eating
<br>seafood, and drinking more alcohol that was good for any of us. My, did we
<br>have a good
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<br>There are 7 messages totalling 280 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. Wash and Wear; WSJ project
<br>  2. Tom Clark memorial (2)
<br>  3. Rearend/seat (was Re: Butt (was Re: thong))
<br>  4. dialectal loanwords - mebos
<br>  5. US/NIS Curriculum Development Exchange Program
<br>  6. mrs./ms./miss
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<br>Date:    Wed, 4 Mar 1998 03:12:07 EST
<br>From:    Bapopik  Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM 
<br>Subject: Wash and Wear; WSJ project
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<br>WASH AND WEAR
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<br>      I've been looking at the WALL STREET JOURNAL in the 1950s and I found an
<br>article about Japanese clothing, but sorry, no "zori."
<br>      Instead, here's "wash and wear."  OED has "wash and wear" from 1959.
<br>This is from the WSJ, 10 October 1957, pg. 3, col. 4:
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<br>New "Wash and Wear"
<br>Women's Clothing Is
<br>Shown by Dupont
<br>     NEW YORK--Du Pont Co. announced introduction of a group of "automatic
<br>wash and wear" women's garments that it says can be washed and dried in
<br>automatic home laundry equipment in about an hour and emerge ready for wear
<br>with no ironing needed.
<br>     The clothes, which include suits, skirts, shorts and dresses, are being
<br>made by seven leading women's wear manufacturers, from fabrics containing high
<br>percentages of Du Pont's Orlon and Dacron synthetic fibres, Du Pont said.
<br>They're expected to be delivered to stores early next year, the company added.
<br>(...)  The first "automatic wash and wear" men's suits were introduced last
<br>April by a single manufacturer, it said, but next spring 37 men's wear
<br>manufacturers will be in the market with "automatic wash and wear" clothing.
<br>(...)  In addition, Du Pont said, it had found in a recent survey of over
<br>1,000 women that "ironing is the most disliked of all household tasks, even
<br>more disliked than scrubbing floors."
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<br>WALL STREET JOURNAL PROJECT
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<br>      I am, of course, aware that the recent WSJs are online.  However,
<br>there's something to be said for reading the whole way through.  (The
<br>"PEPPER...and Salt" daily cartoons I'm collecting contain loads of wonderful
<br>jargon jokes.)
<br>     "Glass ceiling" was discussed here and can be found on the computer.  But
<br>the 16 January 1958 WSJ has "feminine fallout."  The 16 October 1957 WSJ has
<br>"rubber ceiling."  The 20 January 1958 WSJ has "flexible ceiling."  I would
<br>not even think of searching for these terms.
<br>      My last posting (and methods) should be clarified.  Everything I post is
<br>not always an OED "antedate."  Some citations illustrate usage, and some are
<br>new terms to the OED.  I always check the OED at the library, but don't always
<br>have it with me when I post in these late hours.
<br>     "Man in the street" goes back to 1831 in OED, but I'm making a note of it
<br>in reference to "man in The Street" (i.e., Wall Street).  The first answering
<br>"set" is not an answering "machine," but c'mon.  "Stick a fork in him--he's
<br>done" is not an OED antedate because it's not in OED, but was posted here as a
<br>possible new entry.  The RHHDAS, of course, is not up to "S."
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