[Ads-l] Antedating of "Fakelore"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Folklorists seem universally to credit the coinage of the "fakelore" to
Richard Dorson.

All in all, it's hard to imagine any other candidate in that period.

JL

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 5:41 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> fakelore (OED 1949)
>
> 1948 _Times Herald_ (Port Huron, Mich.) 26 Sept. 2/8 (Newspapers.com)  Dr.
> Richard M. Dorson ... illustrated his point by relating legends of the
> lumberjacks. ... the real legends are quite different from "fakelore," Dr.
> Dorson said.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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