Origin of “name and shame”
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According to the Phrase Finder the idiomatic expression name and shame was originally used as a noun phrase,
From the Pennsylvania newspaper The Warren Ledger, October 1884:
- "None are willing to father the name and shame of being beer or whisky men."
and only from the ‘90s its contemporary usage has increased considerably as a verb phrase:
following an initiative by the UK Government. On Oct 8, 1996 The Independent (London) reported that:
- "The Home Secretary [Conservative minister Michael Howard] is also expected to suggest a scheme to 'name and shame' young offenders by giving courts the power to remove the automatic anonymity for under-18s."
I couldnt find other details about the origin of the expression, and the information provided by the above source, though interesting, are inconclusive.
Can anyone provide more precise details about its earliest usages?
Is the expression a BrE or an AmE one?
What actually triggered the considerable spike in usage visible from the ‘90s?
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According to the Phrase Finder the idiomatic expression name and shame was originally used as a noun phrase,
From the Pennsylvania newspaper The Warren Ledger, October 1884:
- "None are willing to father the name and shame of being beer or whisky men."
and only from the ‘90s its contemporary usage has increased considerably as a verb phrase:
following an initiative by the UK Government. On Oct 8, 1996 The Independent (London) reported that:
- "The Home Secretary [Conservative minister Michael Howard] is also expected to suggest a scheme to 'name and shame' young offenders by giving courts the power to remove the automatic anonymity for under-18s."
I couldnt find other details about the origin of the expression, and the information provided by the above source, though interesting, are inconclusive.
Can anyone provide more precise details about its earliest usages?
Is the expression a BrE or an AmE one?
What actually triggered the considerable spike in usage visible from the ‘90s?
etymology american-english british-english phrase-origin
asked 3 hours ago
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According to the Phrase Finder the idiomatic expression name and shame was originally used as a noun phrase,
From the Pennsylvania newspaper The Warren Ledger, October 1884:
- "None are willing to father the name and shame of being beer or whisky men."
and only from the ‘90s its contemporary usage has increased considerably as a verb phrase:
following an initiative by the UK Government. On Oct 8, 1996 The Independent (London) reported that:
- "The Home Secretary [Conservative minister Michael Howard] is also expected to suggest a scheme to 'name and shame' young offenders by giving courts the power to remove the automatic anonymity for under-18s."
I couldnt find other details about the origin of the expression, and the information provided by the above source, though interesting, are inconclusive.
Can anyone provide more precise details about its earliest usages?
Is the expression a BrE or an AmE one?
What actually triggered the considerable spike in usage visible from the ‘90s?
etymology american-english british-english phrase-origin
asked 3 hours ago
user240918
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According to the Phrase Finder the idiomatic expression name and shame was originally used as a noun phrase,
From the Pennsylvania newspaper The Warren Ledger, October 1884:
- "None are willing to father the name and shame of being beer or whisky men."
and only from the ‘90s its contemporary usage has increased considerably as a verb phrase:
following an initiative by the UK Government. On Oct 8, 1996 The Independent (London) reported that:
- "The Home Secretary [Conservative minister Michael Howard] is also expected to suggest a scheme to 'name and shame' young offenders by giving courts the power to remove the automatic anonymity for under-18s."
I couldnt find other details about the origin of the expression, and the information provided by the above source, though interesting, are inconclusive.
Can anyone provide more precise details about its earliest usages?
Is the expression a BrE or an AmE one?
What actually triggered the considerable spike in usage visible from the ‘90s?
etymology american-english british-english phrase-origin
etymology american-english british-english phrase-origin
asked 3 hours ago
user240918
24.4k967147
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