11-year antedating of "TBH"

Hugo hugovk at GMAIL.COM
Tue Mar 18 21:41:43 UTC 2014


"TBH" ("to be honest") has been added to the OED in the March 2014 update
with a first quote from 2002.

Here's an 11-year antedating.

Bill Biesty, 18 June 1991, rec.food.veg, Subject: Re: Stop silliness about
justification for vegetarianism:

[Begin]
I get tired posters (people who post) who say "Stop talking about X! I don't
want to talk/read about X!  Talk about something else besides X!" but then
don't have anything they want to talk about.

TBH (To be honest), I skip a lot of it too.  But did read it for a while.
[End]

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/rec.food.veg/I3LtLL2tEPo/u3s_N0wnr2gJ

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/TBH$20after$3A1990$2F01$2F01$20$20before$3A1991$2F11$2F11/rec.food.veg/I3LtLL2tEPo/u3s_N0wnr2gJ

Hugo

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