Coinages (part two)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> 06-07-1987, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, pg. 3--...(Alice--ed.) Kahn is best
> known beyond the Bay Area as the columnist who first coined the word
> "yuppie"...

Kahn's claim is clearly untrue.  "Yuppie" was used before Kahn by Bob
Greene in 1993, Joseph Epstein and the Los Angeles Times in 1982, and
probably others back to the late 1970s.


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