"poser" (before 1990?)

[Matthew Gordon]

There was a bar/club in Georgetown in the 80's (maybe still around) called
Posers.


On 6/1/05 10:46 AM, "Paul Frank" <paulfrank at POST.HARVARD.EDU> wrote:

>> Was anybody using the teenage term "poser" before 1990? That's the
> earliest date
>> I've found on Usenet.
>
> I recall fellow students using the word "poser" in my high school in Norwich
> England from 1979 to 1980 and at Leeds University from 1980 to 1984. It was
> very popular in England in the early '80s.
>
> Paul
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