Further Antedating of "Smog"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

On 12/17/2011 8:38 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
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> I have previously antedating "smog" (OED 1905) back to Ambrose Bierce in 18=
> 84.  Here is a still earlier example:
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> 1881 _Sporting Times_ (London) 17 Dec. 6 (19th Century U.K. Periodicals)  I=
> T was a cold, miserable, drizzly day last Thursday as ever was.  The "Smog"=
>   -- a word I have invented, combined of smoke and fog, to designate the Lon=
> don atmosphere -- had but partially cleared away.
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Didn't Bierce attribute "smog" to Edmund Bates? Has a pertinent Bates
passage been identified?

-- Doug Wilson

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