"AAVE" (the abbrev. itself)

[Joanne M. Despres]

Unfortunately, there's no antedating in the M-W files.  But I did
notice a citation in which the author mentions using "BEV" in 1992,
before "AAVE" had become the common term.

Joanne

On 5 Oct 2004, at 14:46, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

> I was surprised, when looking over the evidence for _AAVE_
> (the abbreviation itself, that is), that the earliest example
> in _American Speech_ appears only in 1993. I know that various
> other terms were used in different periods but I hadn't thought
> that _AAVE_ was quite so new.
>
> Can anyone provide an antedating?
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED


Joanne M. Despres, Senior Editor
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