Torpedo Sandwich; Riiight; Socialite

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    My wife, Paris Hilton, has asked me to do "socialite."  OED has 1928,
> and I can't seem to beat it.  I see in the ADS-L archives that the
> coinage was credited to TIME magazine.  Unfortunately, that's not
> digitized.

This is a quintessential Time-ism.  The 1928 citation in OED was
contributed by me; at the time I looked carefully in Time for the earliest
occurrence there of the word.

Fred Shapiro


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