English

Noun

thish ‎(uncountable)

1. (dated, fandom slang) A self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.
   • 1961 November-December, Hoffman, Lee, Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 3, page 30:

     Much thanks to those of you who were going to write for thish, but failed to make the deadline. Deadline nextish is July 1966...

   • 1996 March, Cameron, R. Graeme, “Editorial”, in The Space Cadet Gazette, volume 3, number 1 (whole number 5), page 2:

     I was simply too stressed to sit down and work on this zine. That I finally got around to publishing thish is not, alas, due to my problems being resolved but rather to a sudden determination on my part to lose myself in the task and thus escape from all that dogs me, if only for a little while.

2. (dated, fandom slang) A reference to the specific issue of a peridocial currently under discussion.
   • 1953 August, Clarkson, D., “[letter]”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 42, number 3, page 135:

     Thish of TWS was really a shock to me, and I'm not pulling any punches!

   • 1955 Spring, Scott, Pat, “Pat Me Gently [letter]”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 10, page 92:

     Only story I really enjoyed in thish was THE VANISHER.

References

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007) Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-530567-8, page 238