Antedating: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:05 AM +0800 2/19/04, Russ McClay wrote:
>Antedating: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
>
>Straight Dope has this:
>
>http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msupercali.html
>
>...anything further...?
>
>[For fun I set up a domain name:
>http://supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.taolodge.com/]
>
>Russ
>
>r  m  :  m  c  c  l  a  y
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>                                                mcclay at taolodge.com
>                                                http://taolodge.com

Nice to see American Speech and Eric Hamp involved in the history,
although evidently not conclusively.  I wonder whether it's a
compliment to be referred to (as Peter Tamony is) as "a
folk-etymologist".  Better than our all being assimilated to
"entymologists" as occurs later in the piece, which Cecil himself did
not prepare.

larry