Two sources for "earworm"

[John McChesney-Young]

Arnold Zwicky wrote:

>Word Spy has a 1987 cite.
>
>it's also a word that is likely to have been translated from the german
>many times, by different people independently.  or even invented
>independently.

I wonder if the 1988 publication of Howard Rheingold's _They Have a
Word for It_ might have been responsible for helping to spread the
English word, since I see from the Amazon reproduction of the index
that _Ohrwurm_ is one of the terms treated.

John
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