GIGO (1961)

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU
Sat Aug 13 20:24:38 UTC 2005


On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:03:52 -0400, Fred Shapiro wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>
>> OED has "GIGO" = "garbage in, garbage out" from 1964, and Barry Popik
>> previously supplied a cite from the Oct. 24, 1963 _N.Y. Herald Tribune_.
>
>The Yale Dictionary of Quotations has a 1959 citation in its database.

And that would be...?


--Ben Zimmer



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