Social networking?

[Baker, John]

        Around since at least 1992, see http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0607A&L=ADS-L&P=R3698.

John Baker


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Subject: Re: Social networking?

No citations, but Wiktionary has it at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/social#English. BB

On Mar 22, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> When I phone my bank to ask a question about the state of my checking
> account, I'm asked for "the last four digits of my social."
>

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