"poser" (before 1990?)

[Paul Frank]

> Was anybody using the teenage term "poser" before 1990? That's the
earliest date
> I've found on Usenet.

I recall fellow students using the word "poser" in my high school in Norwich
England from 1979 to 1980 and at Leeds University from 1980 to 1984. It was
very popular in England in the early '80s.

Paul
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