Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 25: Read My Lips

[Towse]

"read my lips" was not new with GHWB.

Google Groups shows the earliest post as
<http://google.com/group/net.cycle/msg/c8eea78a91732d85> (Oct 18 1983)
and it certainly was around before then.

On 12/26/06, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 05:54:44PM -0500, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> >
> > Not an antedating, but a term not in OED that should be included.  See
> > George Herbert Walker Bush #4 in Yale Book of Quotations and
> > cross-references from that entry.
>
> This has been drafted and should be appearing in the near future.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
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