[lit-ideas] Whose Who?
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:45:57 EDT
Marlena put a title to the online report:
>>whose the brainiest?
E. Yost notes:
>who's the brainiest?
---- Interesting. This reminds me of 'whose who' and 'who's who', as per the
title of the book. I made a search in the OED to see if I could find who
wrote the first _Who's Who_, and failed.
Cheers,
JL
1962 W. NOWOTTNY Lang. Poets Use ii. 34
Whilst using obituary or Who's Who language, it [sc. the diction] subtly
detaches itself from the social attitudes such language is normally associated
with.
1974 Advocate-News (Barbados) 19 Feb. 12/1
The list of batsmen to come is straight out of the â??who's whoâ?? of
attacking
cricketers.
1981 Country Life 16 July 205/4 Women in History..is a sort of Who's Who and
Who Was Who of women who..should be known.
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