[Crosspost offering first cite]

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:22 AM -0400 9/21/05, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
>>  The European English Messenger 14, 1 (2005)
>>  Svartvik, Jan. " A Life in Linguistics." pp. 34-44
>>
>>  Exact quote: [an anecdote concerning a case, a murder in 1950, the
>>  linguistics analysis carried out in 1966]... This has been my one and
>>  only sally into forensic linguistics (I've later been told that I was
>>  the first to use this term)...  p. 39
>
>Svartvik published _The Evans Statements: A Case for Forensic Linguistics_
>in 1968.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
Yes, this came out in the forensic linguistics list discussion.  So
1968 would be the original cite date for the OED, or whoever.

L