"Nosey Parker" 1890?

[Grant Barrett]

On Oct 28, 2007, at 18:25, Sam Clements wrote:

> At the risk of exposing myself to trusting Google Books too much,
> supposedly the term "Nosey Parker" is only found from 1907.
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=FUFJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA81&dq=%22nosey
> +parker%22+date:1850-1908&as_brr=0#PPA81,M1  shows an 1890 cite.
>
> Comments?

I saw that last week and mentioned it in a podcast. It seems to check
out, if you go back page by page, making sure there are no breaks and
that the page numbers are consecutive. It seems to conform to the
table of contents, too. The only way to be sure, though, will be by
checking the printed version. It doesn't seem to be one of the books
that is also at the U. of Michigan Making of America site--that's the
school where Google got the book.

Grant Barrett
Double-Tongued Dictionary
http://www.doubletongued.org/
editor at doubletongued.org

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