FYI: Origin of Mouse Potato
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri May 2 02:02:24 UTC 2003
On Thu, 1 May 2003, Gareth Branwyn wrote:
> Mouse potatoes is nice. If its Alice's coinage we should use it and
> credit
> her. (She apparently coined the word hippies, yes?)
I think you mean "yuppie," which Kahn claims erroneously to have coined
(her usage was in 1983, and there are several earlier citations than
that).
Fred Shapiro
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