Google Books [was: "Ice cream" from 1735?]

[Joel S. Berson]

Good heavens!  Have there been any authoritative complaints?  Or very
public negative publicity?  ((and I don't mean Internet blogs,
I  mean the NYTimes or Wall Street Journal, or the major cooperating
universities.)  Even with false positives and false negatives from
Early American Newspapers, one can determine the issue (not simply
the page number in some unknown year!)

Joel

At 1/2/2007 09:02 AM, you wrote:
>One can't. Or I can't.
>
>   JL
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>"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>Google Books, at
>http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC10203011&id=X1IDAAAAMAAJ&q=%22ice+cream%22++gentleman's+magazine&dq=%22ice+cream%22++gentleman's+magazine&pgis=1,
>returns a quotation for "ice cream" from London Magazine: Or,
>Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, page 367, and describes it as
>"Published 1735".
>
>Do I remember correctly that Google Books tells us the date the
>journal was first published, so that this may not be an antedating of
>OED2's 1744? (The illustration of the cover page is "Vol. XIV"; I am
>not able quickly to say what year that may be.)
>
>How does one determine what issue the Google Books hit is from?
>
>Joel
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