Antedating of "Linguistic"

Tue Oct 30 13:30:06 UTC 2007

linguistic (OED 1856)

1827 _Caledonian Mercury_ 9 Apr. (19th Century British Library Newspapers)  We select some of these for the amusement of our readers, as peculiarly characteristic of a clear-headed, warm-hearted, unsophisticated, though uncouth race in linguistic refinements.

Fred Shapiro

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