The competitive sport of antedating

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Another media appearance for ADS-Lers... In the Sunday Boston Globe,
Erin McKean subbed for Jan Freeman, writing about antedating as sport:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/10/14/what_came_first/

Discusses antedatings from Barry Popik, Jerry Cohen, Grant Barrett,
and me, along with unnamed others.


--Ben Zimmer

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