"basket weaving" revisited

[Sam Clements]

I really hate it when I post in haste.

Here's the ADS link
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http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0508C&L=ADS-L&P=R3134&I=-3

where I say I found an example in 1956 in the LA Times letters.

SC
From: "Sam Clements" <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: "basket weaving" revisited


> If you search ADS-L using "underwater basket weaving" you'll see that I
> antedated the term to 1958.
>
> Sam Clements
>
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> From: "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:14 PM
> Subject: "basket weaving" revisited
>
>
>>   In 2003 several ads-l members produced a thread on "basket weaving" and
>> "underwater basketweaving"
>> (= a ridiculously easy college course).  I'm presently compiling that
>> information for a working paper in Comments on Etymology, and due credit
>> will of course be given.
>>
>>    Barry Popik has a 1950 quote for "Hopi basket weaving", 1952 for just
>> "basket weaving" and 1969 for "underwater basketweaving."  Might any of
>> the recently available databases (or any other source) contain earlier
>> attestations?  Any assistance would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Gerald Cohen
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