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♠  TomasBat   01:24, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Cold War Origins
Hello...I like all of the information that you have provided about the origins of the Cold War term. I'm somewhere on the fence about whether this is enough information to have its own article. Is there more that you have? If so, maybe we could make a new article, and put a more brief summary on the main article page, to enhance readability. What do you think? Hires an editor 13:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

"punk rock" etymology

 * The use of the word "apparently" simply suggested that the example cited was the earliest so far found--leaving open the possibility that there was one still older as yet unidentified. Indeed, as it turns out, the Sanders example was earlier.
 * Your defense of the Yale quotation book is well taken, but you misrepresented the citation I restored to. The primary source was not a website, but a history of punk rock from a highly reputable publisher--Wesleyan University Press. Research shows that all the sources are referencing the exact same article--the Taylor history and the interview identify it as 1970; Yale as 1971. I've now also looked at Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde, by Bernard Gendron, and the Creem magazine website, which both identify it as May 1971--clearly the correct date. I've made the necessary edits. Could you provide a page number for the Yale citation?—DCGeist 21:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the page cite--and for leading us to the accurate dates in the first place. The Marsh quote undoubtedly stills needs to be--and is--mentioned. If you're interested in a little of the history, Marsh's usage was almost certainly more influential in popularizing the term--he was already one of the best known rock critics--and ? and the Mysterians, in terms of their sound, are certainly recognized as one of the important garage rock forebears to the later musical style with which the term "punk rock" became associated. However, the Sanders quote is very valuable to have--his band, The Fugs, was a central part of a downtown New York cultural scene in the mid-1960s that was one of the foundations for the Mercer Arts Center/CBGB's scene where punk rock as we know it blossomed in the mid-1970s. So, again, thanks for bringing this information in. Best, Dan.—DCGeist 22:10, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

List of English words of Russian origin
Thank you for the expansion of the List of English words of Russian origin. Please always provide the source of etymological information you are adding. Please also update the individual articles as well, so thet there is no discrepancies between them and this list. `'Míkka 23:00, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

List of English words of Russian origin.
You don't know what you are talking about.Rusf (talk) 21:57, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

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