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WORDS — MADE IN AMERICA
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pronouncing. So the palefaces came close as they could, "hooch" reulted, and that's how hangovers were rn, at least among the customers of the Hutsnuwu.
DR. MATHEWS' research revealed that other terms, akin to hooch, also have honorable histories of usage by Americans. Gin sling dates back to 1800; eye opener to 1818; drunk as a fiddler to 1848; .straight whisky, 1862; moonshine, 1892; hangover, 1912; bathtub gin, 1932; cocktail lounge, 1940; old fash' ioned, 1943; and pixilated, 1949.
Sports-loving Americans have added many terms and expressions to the language. Night baseball, for example, came into use as an Americanism at the turn of the century. Its firstknown printed use was December 1, 1910 in Morrison's Chicago 'Wee\]y. Baseball was first mentioned in London in 1744.
Strikeout dates back to 1853; foul ball, 1860; batter, 1879; double header, 1896; hit and run, 1899; squeeze, 1905; and blooper, 1937.
Other sports terms originating in the United States include back stretch, 1839; bleacher, 1889; basket, 1892; AllAmerica, 1904; birdie, 1922; athlete's foot, 1928; and photo finish, 1944.
Dr. Mathews, a native of Alabama, first became interested in his work in 1925. That year. Sir William Craigie, British dictionary maker and scholar, came to this country and the University of Chicago to edit the four volume "Dictionary of American English," published by the University of Chicago Press in 1944.
Mathews was a member of Sir William's first class at Chicago and eight years later became an assistant editor of the "Dictionary of American English." When Sir Craigie's work was finished. Dr. Mathews embarked on his compilation of Americanisms.
For the first-known printed evidence for each word made in the U.S.A., the staff of the project was assisted by lexicographers, country editors, business men, scholars, and even a prisoner. A lifer gave the derivation for "phony" and a Dutch agriculture professor gave the history of "bee" — spelling bees, apple bees, and husking bees.
Mathews and his staff catalogued on citation slips dated quotations of the use and meanings of the 50,000 Americanisms. These citations were culled from a variety of sources, including old books, newspapers, mailorder catalogues and official documents.
No claim is made that first-known citation in the dictionary is the eadiest that might be found. Such definitive checking to the ultimate source would be a task beyond practical possibility and the possibility that the entire work from "A," an abbreviation first used by the Plymouth colonists for adultery through "zwieback," twice baked bread, will be read by users who will send evidence of earlier usage for some of the terms. These volunteer efforts will be of aid to editors of dictionaries in the future.
Why, the comments alone from customers who find that the two-volume set is priced at $50 should bring Dr. Mathews, a world of material — and some of it may be printable.