At 09:28 PM 7/6/04 -0400, you wrote: > From WordNet 2.0: > 1. scare quote -- (the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is >not the authors preferred terminology)
I followed up your search, and noticed at least four sites that used this exact definition, including the missing apostrophe. :) There's also a good discussion from 2002 here, which suggests I may not be the only one who never heard the term: http://www.electriceditors.net/edline/vol7/7-15.txt I also enjoyed reading this cool commentary by the redoubtable John Lawler: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/quote.html "Scare quote" appears in my copy of AHD4 but not AHD3, so that puts its documented use between 1990 and 2000. Still can't find its origins or source of its first use, though. Wonder if William Safire has done a column of it? Glad to have learned something today! Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
