I don’t think it has been generalized. Most homebrewers I know or hear speak say “mash in”. A few misuse the term “dough in”, but “mash in” is much more common.
for what it’s worth, my 3 year old says mash-in. ;D
The term is used all of the time on a large home brewing forum. However, then again, many threads on that forum make me scratch my head.
With that said, the AHA forum is different. It is the most civil, knowledgeable, and inclusive amateur-level brewing forum on the Internet.
My kids say, “You’re not brewing again?” They do not care for the smell of mash let alone the smell of boiling hopped wort.
Couldn’t agree more! Especially the last point.
Since the time period you’re talking about also parallels the time when internet access became widely available, I’m wondering if we’re seeing regional terms spreading across the country rather than the birth of new lingo. We certainly have plenty of regional terms for things.
Makes good sense. The emergence of the net being widely used coincides when I remember seeing the term used.
Reminds me, in about 1988 I got a promotion because I was the only one at the company who knew how to get the new PC to boot up.
So, who first ivented boot up? It doesn’t even have feet much less footwear.
Ah man. Remember boot disks?
Wait, this isn’t the tangents thread.
I say dough in… 
That’s funny
The term “boot” is short for “bootstrap,” which is derived from the term “to pull oneself up by one’s own bootstraps,” which, in turn, means to build an enterprise from nothing without any outside help. It’s application to computers is credited to Werner Buchholz.
In the case computers, “bootstrapping” is the process where a computer system progressively adds capabilities by using a small program in read-only memory (ROM) to load a larger more capable program into random-access memory (RAM), which, in turn, loads an even more capable program into RAM and so forth. This approach was taken because early computers were resource constrained. Read-only memory (ROM) was at a premium; therefore, there was only enough space in ROM for code to initialize the machine and read a block of data off of a peripheral device (tape or disk drive) into a fixed memory location.
The first computer on which I worked could not boot itself at power on. One had to enter the address of the boot routine into the program counter (a register that holds the address of the next instruction to be executed) and toggle the run switch. The machine was prehistoric compared to a modern deskop or even a 1981 IBM PC.
Does anybody scream “Flame On!” like the human torch when they turn on their burner?
If nobody else has claimed it then in ten years when everybody is doing it I want somebody to come back to this thread and credit me for its creation.
You just might be the only one, which admittedly make you pretty special
I wonder if electric brewers get confused when they see flame out in a recipe?
If they do, probably that’s not the only thing confusing them.
Use of the term ‘pragmatic’ in relation to brewing coincides with Denny getting internet access.
Flameout was coined by a pilot in the early days of gas turbine propulsion. Could not resist.