Comments on: New Words on the Block: Back When “Movies” Were Young http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: taleswapper http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/comment-page-1/#comment-113750 taleswapper Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:47:44 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/#comment-113750 It just makes me wonder why movie survived but talkie did not. It just makes me wonder why movie survived but talkie did not.

]]> By: David Sarokin http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/comment-page-1/#comment-97954 David Sarokin Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:46:37 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/#comment-97954 You may be interested to see my write up on a previous (and now outdated) antedating of "movies" which also had tracked it back to 1911, in the very unchildish Washington Post: http://firstmention.com/movies.aspx I'll have to update the page now, of course, but first there needs to be the obligatory hunt for a use of the word even earlier than 1909. David You may be interested to see my write up on a previous (and now outdated) antedating of “movies” which also had tracked it back to 1911, in the very unchildish Washington Post:

http://firstmention.com/movies.aspx

I’ll have to update the page now, of course, but first there needs to be the obligatory hunt for a use of the word even earlier than 1909.

David

]]> By: The Noun Project » The Troubles of Introducing New Words http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/comment-page-1/#comment-97672 The Noun Project » The Troubles of Introducing New Words Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:34:12 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/#comment-97672 [...] Read all about it at: http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/ [...] [...] Read all about it at: http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/ [...]

]]> By: John Cowan http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/comment-page-1/#comment-97230 John Cowan Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:53:42 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/#comment-97230 A rough parallel is the success of the pronunciation /'sInIm@/ in Britain for "cinema", which was for a long time the standard term for "movie theatre" there, despite attempts to impose the classicizing pronunciation /kAI'nimA/. A rough parallel is the success of the pronunciation /’sInIm@/ in Britain for “cinema”, which was for a long time the standard term for “movie theatre” there, despite attempts to impose the classicizing pronunciation /kAI’nimA/.

]]> By: New Words on the Block: Back When “Movies” Were Young http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/comment-page-1/#comment-97203 New Words on the Block: Back When “Movies” Were Young Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:18:07 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/#comment-97203 [...] Original post by OUPblog [...] [...] Original post by OUPblog [...]

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