Antedating of "Monosyllabic"

[Fred Shapiro]

monosyllabic (OED 1766)

1735 Alexander Pope _Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence_ (ed. 2) II. xxix
(Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  The monosyllabic _West-Saxon_
Race.

Fred Shapiro

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