Re: M-W and "fantab ulous"

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 1/19/06 10:47:39 AM, jdespres at MERRIAM-WEBSTER.COM writes:


> > A minute or two on Proquest finds the word in a Chicago Tribune ad for
> > Delta-C&S Airlines from June 23, 1953, with three additional exx in
> > Joan Winchell's LA Times column from 1955-56. Newspaperarchive turns
> > up another half dozen exx from 1956.
> >
> > I'm sensing that the newsletter writer might be a bit out of the loop
> > at the M-W office...
> >
> >
> > --Ben Zimmer
>

PLEASE! So she missed an antedating by three or four years. This hardly means
that she--or M-W has written something worth complaining about.

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