Q: date for "bobalition"?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/16/2008 02:09 PM, Barnhart wrote:
>bobolition has an entry in DAE:
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>Obs. An alleged Negro variant of Abolition. 1818 (title) Bobolition of
>slavery!!! Grand selebrashun by the Africum Shociete!!! Boston.  1819 ...
>1821 ... 1839 ... 1861
>
>Given that it has an entry also in DA with an additional and rather long
>quote from 1892 (spelled _bobalition_), I would have expected it already
>to be an entry in OED.  However, the age and obsolescence probably did not
>impress the other OED editors from including Craigie's find.

Thanks, this is what I was wondering about.

Since my 1816 citation is locatable in EAN (Rhode-Island American,
Aug 6), I won't quote it.

Joel




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> >Well, I have quotations from 1816, 1819, and 1822 -- all, as it
> >happens, via EAN, although I looked there only after encountering
> >others from 1822 (and all are from New England).  But my question was
> >really aimed at why it's absent from the OED and whether it's present
> >in other dictionaries.
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> >Joel
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> >> >I don't find "bobalition" (abolition) in the OED.  When is it dated
> >> >to?  Should it be in the OED?
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> >> >Joel
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> >>Here is a good example of a term that benefits from "Googling".  Nexis
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> >>ProQuest (two pretty standard sources) have very little.  Historic NYT
> >hars
> >>nothing.  These I have just checked at home.  Googling produced
> >more--569 .
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> >> From an academic library there might be more sources to search.
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> >>If something in the 569 is strong enough, it might go into a dictionary
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> >>due course.  Some seem at first glance to support early 19th century
> >>evidence.
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