http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/highfalutin/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Tue, 21 May 2013 18:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/highfalutin/#comment-194198 Faith Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:13:00 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=12722#comment-194198 But which Yiddish word is being proposed here? The only word I can think of that comes close and has the right starting sound is "hevl-havolim" (הבל–הבלים utter nonsense) which is not pronounced much like highfalutin. But which Yiddish word is being proposed here? The only word I can think of that comes close and has the right starting sound is “hevl-havolim” (הבל–הבלים utter nonsense) which is not pronounced much like highfalutin.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/highfalutin/#comment-194115 Stephen Goranson Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:29:21 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=12722#comment-194115 In the searches that I have done, so far, for what it's worth, highfalutin (and several variants) in the earliest published uses appears overwhelmingly in the US rather than England. And, unless one counts hearsay, kibosh, as used by sculptors, is not documented earlier than 1901, some seven decades later than the earliest known published appearance of kibosh. In the searches that I have done, so far, for what it’s worth, highfalutin (and several variants) in the earliest published uses appears overwhelmingly in the US rather than England. And, unless one counts hearsay, kibosh, as used by sculptors, is not documented earlier than 1901, some seven decades later than the earliest known published appearance of kibosh.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2010/12/highfalutin/#comment-194107 Tweets that mention OUPblog » Blog Archive » Low-Key Thoughts on ‘Highfalutin’ -- Topsy.com Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:03:22 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=12722#comment-194107 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by sanja_ramic and Bertromavich Reibold, Lauren. Lauren said: Today, I charge you all to use "highfalutin" in conversation. http://bit.ly/i7eJPx [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by sanja_ramic and Bertromavich Reibold, Lauren. Lauren said: Today, I charge you all to use "highfalutin" in conversation. http://bit.ly/i7eJPx [...]

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