# The origin of the term 86'd **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [November 21, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-origin-of-the-term-86d/214424 "2003-11-21T02:26:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![skidoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@skidoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skidoo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-origin-of-the-term-86d/214424/41 "2004-01-15T18:06:35Z")
> [@DDuffy](#): > > skidoo I really dont care about your pet peeves about apostrophe’s i know when to use them…i just choose not to OK. Well why don’t you drop the pesky punctuation too? Who needs it? Just a waste of bytes anyway. > [@](#): > > I would like for you to cite your 'source as to where I 'said it was their 'signature di’sh… Umm, we’re talking about a restaurant named DELMONICO’S. And we’re, umm, talking about a steak called the DELMONICO. > [@](#): > > anyone who ha’s any type of marketing 'sense knows to put the mo’st popular thing where it is not 'seen fir’st ie drug’store’s alway’s have the pharmacy in the very back ,when they have a choice, 'so you have to go through the whole 'store pa’st all the merchandi’se before you can get your medicine. And anyone who’s eaten in a half-decent restaurant has seen how most put their specialties on the first or second page. In fact, have you ever seen a printed list of specials sitting on TOP OF YOUR MENU?? That was brilliant analysis, really. > [@](#): > > A guess by the OED (The OED suggests the etymology as “perh. rhyming slang for nix.”) is no more credible than a guess by my dog…its a guess Granted, I haven’t met your dog, but a guess by the OED is considerably more credible. A guess by the writers of the OED on such matters is considerably more credible than guesses by most PEOPLE, much less their girlfriends, I mean dogs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-origin-of-the-term-86d/214424.md?page=2)