Never Mind on "Hot Dog"

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:01 AM -0400 6/21/10, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>Jeez, I'm not doing very well this morning.  Dan is correct.  The
>New York World citation is 1903, not 1893, and does not represent an
>antedating!  So the primacy of earliest known usage is really not
>Yale or Harvard, but Asbury Park, New Jersey.
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>Fred Shapiro

OK, as long as it's not Harvard.  We don't mind giving up the mantle
to Asbury Park, especially since it will make The Boss happy.

LH

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>From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
>Dan Goncharoff [thegonch at gmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 10:35 AM
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Further Antedating of "Hot Dog" (I Left Out Citation in
>Previous E-mail)
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>How is Mar 1903 earlier than May 1893?
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>DanG
>Trying to save the primacy of Yale, hot dog-wise

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