Antedating of "Flying Saucer"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Jun 4 01:41:42 UTC 2013


flying saucer (OED 8 July 1947)

1947 _Chicago Sun_ 26 June 2 (Wikipedia entry on "flying saucer")  (heading) Supersonic flying saucers sighted by Idaho pilot.

Fred Shapiro

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org



More information about the Ads-l mailing list