antedating: eggnog (c1774)

[Sam Clements]

My reading of Matthews DofA cites Boucher, 1832-33!

Sam Clements
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From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: antedating: eggnog (c1774)


>I assume this kills Heidi Harley's joyeux noel -- but do these two
> dictionaries have a quote from 1775, or just a quote from Boucher's
> 1807 book?  The former would be an antedating; the latter is too late
> to be useful, I think.
>
> Joel
>
> At 12/26/2007 03:34 PM, Joanne M. Despres wrote:
>>Sorry to be a killjoy, but Mitford Mathews's _Dictionary of
>>Americanisms_ and William Craigie's _Dictionary of American
>>English_ both quote this passage, dating it ca. 1775.
>>
>>Joanne
>>
>>On 23 Dec 2007, at 2:06, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>>
>> > Just in time for the holidays, a fine antedating from Heidi Harley:
>> >
>> > http://heideas.blogspot.com/2007/12/antedated-eggnog.html
>> >
>> >
>> > --Ben Zimmer
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