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[Fred Shapiro]

On Sat, 24 Jul 1999 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> FRANKFURTERS
> Frankfurters Sale Prohibited, Asbury Park (NJ), 28 May 1893, pg. 16 col. 4.

This is interesting in that it antedates the OED's first use of
_frankfurter_ (1894).  A search on Making of America, however, yields an
occurrence of this word in an 1885 book.


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