> > Safire's New Political Dictionary quotes Elizabeth Drew's usage of > "deniability" in 1978. > > I find it used as a philosophical term in 1905 and in the bureaucratic > usage in 1974: The OED has an example of _deniability_ from a letter of S.T. Coleridge in 1804. Jesse Sheidlower Oxford English Dictionary <jester at panix.com>