Did people write 'never mind' as 'nevermind' before Nirvana?

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Cos folks seem to do that everywhere now, and it's mildly annoying like 'alot' is mildly annoying. It isn't in any dictionary or spellchecker I have to hand, but I suspect it could be soon.

So, the real question might be: how often have solitary pop records eased new words/spellings into a dictionary? S/D? C/D?

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"kill yr idols"

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

In '94 I lived in a shitty, shitty apartment in NYC. Roaches everywhere, crack fiends in the hallway, a new corpse in my living room every night. A fucking nightmare. I talked to the building manager and was like, "Who owns this fucking dive, twat?" He said, "Super? Unknown." How I long for the days when that phrase was uttered in such a beautifully two-part manner.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

WOKKA WOKKA@!!!

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― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't pay me no neverminds.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

gear that joke would be funnier if you realized that building managers and superintendents are the same thing. supers don't own buildings, landlords do.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Nevermind their bollocks...

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

hstencil just superpwned!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

town of pwned, ca
pop 1

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Did people write "quiet bit, loud bit, quiet bit, loud bit" before Nirvana?

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

actually nag nag nag, i wondered this exact thing many a time.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)

No offense, Nag, but one word that annoys me is the very first one you used! That's an English thing, right? Using "cos" as a lazy substitute for "because"? I've always used "'cause" myself; but now I realize that it requires twice as many keystrokes as "cos", so I guess that'll save you time, so carry on. Forget I said anything.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

how often have solitary pop records eased new words/spellings into a dictionary?

bootylicious!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah. Cool.

And scarily enough, "'cos" is in my dictionary:

'cos conjunction (in representations in speech) because: 'cos I told you so. Also cos, coz

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Cos is at least 18th Century. Language pedants wd. be amazed just how many "lazy" or "incorrect" spellings have a venerable history.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

cosine is the ratio of adjacent to hypotenuse. the cosine of pi = negative FUN!

― irrigation can save your people (irrigation can save your peopl), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I just found out yesterday, Asparagus used to be called "Sparrow Grass" until some pretentious gits changed it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Did people write "quiet bit, loud bit, quiet bit, loud bit" before Nirvana?

See Joy Division's "Twenty-four Hours"...

how often have solitary pop records eased new words/spellings into a dictionary?

Bling Bling!

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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