[Ads-l] Antedating of "Tiddlywinks"

[Mark Mandel]

I keep reading that as "Confessions of the Anteater".

Mark Manel

On Sat, Mar 2, 2019, 10:43 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> As those who have read my article, "Confessions of the Antedater," know,
> this is an antedating of special significance to me.
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> Fred Shapiro
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> tiddlywinks (OED, s.v. tiddlywink 2.b., 1889 [15 May])
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> 1889 _Times_ 8 Feb. 1/5 (Times Digital Archive)  TIDDLEDY-WINKS -- Just
> out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. ... At all dealers. -- JAQUES and SON,
> Hatton-garden, E. C.
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