Antedating of "Pseudonym"

[Fred Shapiro]

pseudonym (OED 1833)

1828 _Foreign Review_ Sept. 254 (Periodicals Archive Online)  The author
... calls himself Johann Scho[umlaut]n, -- probably a pseudonym.

Fred Shapiro


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