Antedating of "Yalie"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> Ouch.  Hard to imagine the credit for the first cite will end up
> going to the Crimson, of all sources.  There *has* to be a New
> Havenite antedate for this!  Was the Yale Record staff too busy
> eating their hot dogs and tossing their frisbees to attest "Yalie"?
> Or the Yale Daily News?  Sigh.

Perhaps it was more common for members of the Other Body to be
discussing Yale than Yale discussing itself.

More likely, perhaps you should just get the YR folk to sit down
with the computer folk and say, "Yo, the Crimson is all over us!
You gotta get us online!"

Jesse Sheidlower
OED