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<font size=3>Once again an early 1800s antedating leads me to EAN.
It appears the _Monthly Review_ was not the earliest go-to
place.<br><br>
Daily National Intelligencer; <b>Date: </b>07-23-1816; <b>Volume: </b>IV;
<b>Issue: </b>1104; <b>Page: </b>[3/]; <b>Location: </b>Washington (DC),
District of Columbia. <br><br>
"Perhaps most of our readers are not aware of the fact that Congress
passed a resolution, requiring the Executive to lay before the Congress,
at the next session, and at certain stated periods thereafter, a List of
all Officers of the Government, their names, salaries, and <i>places of
nativity</i>. With whom this idea originated, we do not exactly
know; but it would certainly have been more complete, if the ages of
these public officers had been required, their situation in life, whether
of married or single blessedness; the names of their parental and
avuncular kindred; the names and number of their children, if any they
have."<br><br>
[This article must be a squib cast at the Nativist movement. Being
from 1816, it is I think early in its history, particularly in the
political arena. The Know Nothing party arose in the 1840s, and
both Ray Allen Billington and Ira M. Leonard / Robert D. Parmet see the
beginnings of nativist societies in the 1820s.]<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
At 7/20/2009 12:46 AM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">My latest Word Routes column is
on two words closely tied to Walter<br>
Cronkite, "avuncular" and "anchorman":<br><br>
<a href="http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1920/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1920/</a><br><br>
The "anchorman" part is a followup to my Slate piece from over
the<br>
weekend. As for "avuncular", I mention this early cite,
antedating<br>
OED's 1831:<br><br>
1823 James Smith in _Monthly Rev._ V(25):38 'I take,' continued Mr.<br>
Robert Robertson, 'an avuncular interest in all that concerns
you.'<br><br>
So is it just a coincidence that "avuncular" appears in the
January<br>
1823 _Monthly Review_ and "materteral" shows up in the
September 1823<br>
issue (from a different author)? Was the _Monthly Review_ the go-to<br>
journal for whimsical kinship-based neo-Latinisms?<br><br>
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--Ben Zimmer<br><br>
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