Firstmention.com

[Shapiro, Fred]

I was interested to discover a web site called firstmention.com.  An Internet researcher named David Sarokin has created this site, with pages for two dozen terms presenting the earliest citations he has found for each term, mostly derived from Google News Archive searches.  He doesn't seem to use the ADS-L archives, and uses the OED only spottily, but he does have some antedatings of OED.

Fred Shapiro

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org