Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations - 3: Go West, Young Man
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sat Nov 11 21:06:01 UTC 2006
This is not really an antedating, but rather a correction of OED. The
1851 citation under _west_, adv. 1.b.(b), is completely erroneous. See
Yale Book of Quotations and the article by Thomas Fuller in _Indiana
Magazine of History_, Sept. 2004.
Fred Shapiro
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