Unaccountably, this blog has now has had more than 3,500,000 page views, which would seem to prove that the more arcane the topic, the more attention it will attract. Or, at least, that obscurity is not the kiss of death. I knew this was coming up, and was planning to work up some contest where the first person to comment after 3.5 millions was reached would get a free signed copy of Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English, but I was asleep at the switch. (Is that an expression in British English?) So here’s the new plan: I’ll mail a book to the first person to comment on this post with a suggested Not One-Off Britishism that I haven’t yet written about, and that I decide is blog-worthy. Anyway, thanks to the OED, Ngram Viewer, the New York Times, and Jonathon Green’s Encyclopedia of Slang, which make the blog possible. And to readers and, especially, commenters, who keep me going.
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