anyone for an anecdote fact-check? (yeah, yeah)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

> On the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup, Mark Webb found a citation of the
> Morgenbesser anecdote from 1977 (NYT Magazine):

I don't find anything pre-1977 on JSTOR, Questia, Nexis or ProQuest
Historical Newspapers.

Fred Shapiro


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