"movie" compounds

[Jonathan Lighter]

I'm out of town at the moment without access to HDAS. If someone will post the cite in question I'll comment on it.

JL

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

> In any case, I believe that this leaves Fred Shapiro's find from
> Ancestry.com as the only cite for "movie(s)" found thus far from the first
> half of 1911:
>
> 1911 _Bucks County Gazette_ 24 Mar. 1 The Saturday evening pictures
> are as usual "movies."

Since Jon Lighter has joined this list since I posted this, I wonder
whether he might care to comment on whether he now regards the 1902
citation for "movie" in HDAS as discredited (as I recall, I and Sam
Clements both looked at the book in question and it wasn't there).

Fred Shapiro


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