tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921328832838010683.post4425180412857645069..comments2022-05-20T02:17:41.193-07:00Comments on The Odd Duck Out ._c-: A Member of the TribeNataliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06909597803703850020noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1921328832838010683.post-17172858664546334582011-11-20T22:09:33.047-08:002011-11-20T22:09:33.047-08:00The offensive verb is certainly not just Nebraska....The offensive verb is certainly not just Nebraska. I still hear it occasionally. My OED -- Melynda's OED ;-(((, with the 1972 gift inscriptions from her parents -- has citations back to 1845, including one from Washington Irving. I think the Irving one was in a letter, not anything published in his lifetime ... I can tell that my eyes aren't what they used to be ... even ten or twenty years ago I could read the small print edition of the OED by getting up close to it, but tonight I had to pull out a loupe. And that made it hard enough that I didn't examine all the citations.<br /><br />I really don't think people who say "Christian thing to do" are implying the inverse statement. And I say that as someone whose religious beliefs are even less Christian than yours. My sister Nann says she has sometimes told people (even in her husband's congregation) that her atheist brother is a better Christian than most self-described Christians. I take no offense.paleolithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00869723067229032824noreply@blogger.com