anchorman (1952?); Astroturf

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 06:34:04PM -0500, Sam Clements wrote:
> From: <Bapopik at AOL.COM>
>
>    Here we go again.
>
>   ANCHORMAN
>
>     ADS-L archives.  I posted this on 26 June 2003:
>
> Yep.  You did.  I just forgot to search for "anchor man" rather than
> "anchorman."  Unlike the Times, I apologize.
>
> So, then, the final answer is that Hewitt is BSing on this invention.

Not necessarily. He could believe that he coined it. Indeed, there's
no reason he couldn't have spontaneously recoined it; there's nothing
especially novel about this use that suggests it needed a Tom Wolfean
feat of verbal ingenuity to spring into existence.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED