origin of "muggle"

[Mark A. Mandel]

Lynne asks straight-faced:

        >>>
So, how (if indeed it did) that story held up in court I don't know.
I've seen the muggle=loser claim many times (always from Americans), but
never seen any citations backing it up.
        <<<

Presumably because the courts didn't know how to judge linguistic
evidence and either didn't think to ask or didn't think they needed to.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania