thish

English

Etymology

Blend of this +‎ ish (“issue”)

Noun

thish (uncountable)

1. (dated, fandom slang) A self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.
   • 1961 November-December, Lee Hoffman, Science-Fiction Five-Yearly‎^[1], number 3, page 30:

     Much thanks to those of you who were going to write for thish, but failed to make the deadline. Deadline nextish is July 1966...

   • 1996 March, R. Graeme Cameron, “Editorial”, in The Space Cadet Gazette‎^[2], volume 3, number 1 (whole number 5), page 2:

     I was simply too stressed to sit down and work on this zine. That I finally got around to publishing thish is not, alas, due to my problems being resolved but rather to a sudden determination on my part to lose myself in the task and thus escape from all that dogs me, if only for a little while.

2. (dated, fandom slang) A reference to the specific issue of a peridocial currently under discussion.
   • 1953 August, D. Clarkson, “[letter]”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 42, number 3, page 135:

     Thish of TWS was really a shock to me, and I'm not pulling any punches!

   • 1955 Spring, Pat Scott, “Pat Me Gently [letter]”, in Planet Stories‎^[3], volume 6, number 10, page 92:

     Only story I really enjoyed in thish was THE VANISHER.

References

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “thish”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 238.