New Antedating of "Movie"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> I apologize to those offended by antedatings, but I have pushed back the first citation
> for the word _movie_ slightly further:
>
> movie (OED3 1911)
>
> 1909 _Springfield Sunday Republican_ 1 Aug. 19 (America's Historical Newspapers)
> The average child only goes to the "Movies" twice a month.

...which is more than three months earlier than Fred's last find:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0712A&L=ads-l&P=1687

Well done! But I guess this undermines my theory of "movies" as a
Philadelphia innovation...

http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/movies/

--Ben

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