Saturday, November 22, 2025

Woodstock’s into

[Peanuts, November 25, 1978. Click for a larger view.]

Yesterday’s Peanuts is today’s Peanuts. Yesterday’s colloquialism is today’s colloquialism.

The first citation in the Oxford English Dictionary for this use of into — “interested or involved in; knowledgeable about” — is from Rolling Stone, January 28, 1969: “I tend to like the stuff the rock groups are doing because they're creative and original, and that's something I'm very much into.”

comments: 3

Anonymous said...

1968???

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jazz_Pop/t3oJAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22he%27s+into%22&dq=%22he%27s+into%22&printsec=frontcover

Anonymous said...

1967??

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Crawdaddy/T2oJAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22he%27s+into%22&dq=%22he%27s+into%22&printsec=frontcover

Michael Leddy said...

Off they go to the OED!