Antedating of "Windy City"

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Mon Nov 6 17:15:31 UTC 2006


On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:11:24PM -0500, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> Windy City (OED 1887, Popik 1876)
>
> 1860 [and other impressive ones]

Yeah yeah. Stop teasing and send us that '42 "whole nine
yards" already :-)

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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