Timeline for Title for the player that's trying to get others talking in " silence game"
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| Jan 23, 2023 at 18:06 | history | edited | Billy Kerr | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2023 at 18:03 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | LOL, it's not just me then!! I only thought about that when copying in that last comment, but you've prompted me to ferret out this usage chart, showing that it used to always be Buff - but during our lifetimes, Bluff has surged ahead to take the top slot! (We have our fingers firmly on the linguistic pulse! :) | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 17:52 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @FumbleFingers - yeah I saw that. Nice. I hope it hasn't died out. I knew it as blindman's bluff . . . a variation perhaps? | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 17:44 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | ...Kipling, 1923: As the sides are chosen and all submit \ To the chance of the lot that shall make them ‘It’. | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 17:43 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It's usually behind a paywall (subscription-only), but you can often access the full OED with a UK library card number. It's their definition C-1-a. In children's games: (the name of) the player who has the task of catching or touching any of the others. Also figurative and in extended use. For which their first citation is 1825: J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. It, a term applied, in the games of young people, to the person whose lot it is to afford the sport. Thus, in Blindman's Buff, he who is blindfolded is It, I forgot that game! | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 17:39 | comment | added | Nathaly Makhoul | You know, now that i think of it, i guess "it" would fit the description. Cheers mate. | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 17:39 | comment | added | Lee Mosher | If only children knew how to keep records of their culture... | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 17:35 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @FumbleFingers - interesting, that might suggest it's quite an old tradition. I wonder how far back it goes. | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 17:29 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Nothing in the relevant Wikipedia page implies this usage is any more or less common on either side of the pond. | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 17:23 | history | answered | Billy Kerr | CC BY-SA 4.0 |