Talk:wordsmith

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups:

• wordsmiths': net.religion - 26 Feb 1983 by 5941ux

  Concerning the wordsmiths' "action item" to come up with an alternative to Old/New Testaments... How about Jewish Scriptures and Christian Testament?

• Wordsmith: net.religion - 22 Mar 1983 by tekecs

  Randal L. ("Wordsmith") Schwartz

• wordsmith: net.poems - 6 Feb 1984 by James A. Woods

  There was a seminal article on Gorey in Esquire a few years back by Alexander Theroux, wordsmith in his own right and narrator for Stan Washburn's Gorey-like etchings (St. George's Dragon, The Schinocephalic Waif, etc.).

• wordsmiths: net.jokes - 22 Sep 1984 by Joe Presley

  (subject line): buggy wordsmiths

• wordsmithing: net.politics - 1 Dec 1984 by emks

  I said that blatent use of terms like "nuclear exchange" or "use of nuclear weapons" to mean "total annihilation" is wordsmithing, order n.

• Wordsmith's: rec.org.sca - 5 May 1991 by Journals Production Department

  She says it is a bounce off Master Thomas the Wordsmith's _Vulcan in Valhalla_, which I have not heard.

• Wordsmithy: rec.woodworking - 13 Jul 1992 by Bob Upson

  (subject line): Wordsmithy

• wordsmithies: alt.society.generation-x - 27 Apr 1994 by Ian Williams

  They said they'd liked the piece I had in the Washington Post Magazine (to be available next week in the new book "Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation" - do some young wordsmithies a favor and purchase it; I think y'all will get off on the subject matter) and that they wanted me to come on Oprah with the same sort of "raw anger."

• wordsmith's: rec.arts.books - 29 May 1994 by SubGenius

  That is, a novelist is typically not a stenographer, recording the events and conversations and, by grace of the wordsmith's point-of-view, thoughts of a day or what have you, but rather a dramatist who choreographs these events, conversations, u.s.w. to create a specific effect.

• wordsmithys: alt.politics.usa.republican - 25 May 2000 by Charlie Wolf

  Now, being the excellent wordsmithys that you and I obviously are, you surely recognize that the DNC

— Hippietrail 12:00, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)