BFF (Best Friends Forever) (1992)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 5/5/06, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
>
> "BFF" doesn't seem to be in either the OED or the HDAS. When oh when are
> they going to digitize Seventeen magazine?

A perusal of signed high school yearbooks should easily push this back
to the early '80s or so -- along with various other cryptic
abbreviations like KIT (Keep In Touch).


--Ben Zimmer

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