Antedating of "Yalie"

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Sun Nov 2 03:57:38 UTC 2003


On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:53:44PM -0500, Fred Shapiro wrote:
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> Yalie (OED 1969)
>
> 1955 _N.Y. Times_ 11 Nov.  (crossword puzzle definition) Yalie.

A 1952 example, also from a N.Y. Times crossword puzzle, was
posted to ADS-L on January 10 2003 by, um, Fred Shapiro.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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