Gold Medal for Antedating

[Shapiro, Fred]

According to the September 2002 OED News, for the current revision of the OED someone antedated the word "momentum" from 1699 to pre-1150.

Fred Shapiro



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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joel S. Berson [Berson at ATT.NET]
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 12:43 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: shagging & fucking (once more)

At 9/5/2010 07:13 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 10:00:55PM -0400, George Thompson wrote:
> > >From Jesse Sheidlower
> >
> > > _Shagging_ is used as a noun here, so while it doesn't
> > > antedate the 1788 verb (although we now have a 1770 example of
> > > the verb), it does constitute a whopping 198-year antedating
> > > of _shagging_ n. in OED2.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Is this a record?
>
>No, but it's very impressive.
>
>Joel Berson supplied a 325-year antedating for _piss-house_ on
>this very list....
>
>Jesse Sheidlower
>OED

And via a secondary source on to a court transcript, George.

Jesse, I haven't received my gold medal yet.  George can compete for
the silver.

Joel

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