Re: Teenager

[AAllan at AOL.COM]

Great find, Barry!

> "Teenager" was one of the words of the year (1937) in AMERICA IN SO MANY 
> WORDS.
> 
> 
>    2 July 1935, TIMES-RECORDER (Zanesville, Ohio), pg. 8, col. 2:
> 
I think we were prescient in "America in So Many Words" (Houghton Mifflin 
1997), because at the time the earliest known citation was 1941. But we said: 
"The exact date has yet to be determined; the word makes a matter-of-fact 
appearance in a 1941 issue of Reader's Digest, but being derived from 
long-established [1920s] teenage, it must have been around at least a few years earlier." How 
right we were. Thanks, Barry.

- Allan Metcalf