Pretzel/Bretzel (1843)

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Thu Jan 19 14:54:18 UTC 2006

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On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:41:36AM -0500, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
> How is the OED revision on "pretzel"?? See also the ADS-L archives.

Newspaperarchive has examples of "pretzel" from 1831, which is the
best we have right now.

Jesse Sheidlower
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