Word: dae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BLAZING LIGHT-Max White-Dae//, Sloan & Pearce...
More serious are the omissions: much slang (including John Hancock and limey), guides to pronunciation (especially for Englishmen) and often etymologies. The DAE's weakness in unprinted language may be connected with a reluctance to include unprintable language, for the great U.S. contributions to invective and bawdry are gravely slighted. The DAE's scholarly scope is enormous, and Editor Craigie recognizes the role of plain people in making speech. But in many vital respects Henry Louis Mencken, now at work on his fifth edition of The American Language, can still show the way to the professors...
Skunk, Squash. The DAE pudding, however, contains many a juicy plum. It shows English being enriched, from the earliest days, by borrowings from the U.S. From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry...
When the first of the DAE's sections came off the press in 1936, Sir William went home to Oxfordshire with his strong-minded wife. For seven years he and Co-Editor Hulbert collaborated and quibbled from a distance. Throughout the long printing process, two sets of every proof went to Sir William. He corrected and returned both. Sometimes he did his final editing on proofs, a practice which unnerves typesetters. The mangling got so bad that the Press almost lost its staff, had to serve an ultimatum on the editors...
...Bringing out the red-backed, handsome DAE has put the Press about $300,000 in the red. The deficit has been met by the University, the General Education Board of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and Mrs. Ruth Swift Maguire, sister of the University's Board Chairman Harold Higgins Swift...