Further Antedating of "Movie"

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Aug 13 23:03:32 UTC 2006


I have explained in previous postings that the 1902 or 1903 citations in
OED and HDAS are erroneous.


movie (OED 1912)

1910 _Modesto Evening News_ 13 Mar. 2 (Newspaperarchive)  (heading) Movie
studio for S.F.

Fred Shapiro


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