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[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jan 20, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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> 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

and this citation is in OED3 (Dec. 2009).

amz

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