Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 27: Misunderestimate

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 12/27/06, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> A common word but not in OED.  Google has 86,800 hits.  See Yale Book of
> Quotations for 1997, pre-Bush usage by John Conyers.  (The documentation
> for this usage, not spelled out by YBQ, is FDCH Political Transcripts,
> August 19, 1997 [Nexis]).

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