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ex vs xe.

• kbutler 7y ago
  Woops, yes, transposed when I was trying to determine when it may have been introduced. archive.org has only "red on" (archive since 2015, though the article is dated September 2003). google books finds a 2016 book with this article containing "red oxen". And gq.com elsewhere has the word "oxen" September 2015: https://www.gq.com/gallery/andrew-moore-photography-book-dirt-meridian https://www.gq.com/gallery/andrew-moore-photography-book-dir.... Earliest instance I found was February 2003 https://www.gq.com/story/michael-paterniti-surfing-2003 https://www.gq.com/story/michael-paterniti-surfing-2003 "ercise". There were many others, through at least May 2015 https://www.gq.com/story/old-people-are-robbing-more-banks https://www.gq.com/story/old-people-are-robbing-more-banks "safe deposit bos" Failed to post another edit: Missing-xe disease affects more conde nast publications in that time frame than just GQ as well - for example, teenvogue talks about "ercise" a lot, including https://www.teenvogue.com/story/simple-ways-to-excercise https://www.teenvogue.com/story/simple-ways-to-excercise (note the "exCercise")
  • rdiddly 7y ago
    Holy cow. So it has to have been done recently then, I guess, and probably globally? Which might lend some credence to the "pronoun" theory. I searched for "bos" and turned up quite a few: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22bos%22+site%3Awww.gq.com https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22bos%22+site%3Awww.gq.com Edit: found a new one - remixes/remis: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remis+site%3Awww.gq.com https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remis+site%3Awww.gq.com
    • dec0dedab0de 7y ago
      so does "fos" instead of foxes. This is kind of silly. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22fos%22+site%3Awww.gq.com&kp=1&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22fos%22+site%3Awww.gq.com&kp=1&i...