Antedating of "Linguistic"

[Joel S. Berson]

Fred and Stephen,

May I use the names of your distinguished universities to urge
Harvard to subscribe to 19th Century British Library
Newspapers?  (I've been told they're considering it, "but since it's
on microfilm ...").

Joel

At 10/30/2007 09:30 AM, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>linguistic (OED 1856)
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>1827 _Caledonian Mercury_ 9 Apr. (19th Century British Library
>Newspapers)  We select some of these for the amusement of our
>readers, as peculiarly characteristic of a clear-headed,
>warm-hearted, unsophisticated, though uncouth race in linguistic refinements.
>
>Fred Shapiro
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