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Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Thu Jan 20 15:40:20 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:
>
> Michael Moorcock insists he's been using multiverse since the early 70s
> (at least) and then there's the similarly-timed use of the term re:
> Marvel (or is it DC) comics (though that may be from the 80s).

Moorcock used it in 1963:

http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/70

--bgz

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