Query: Slang "Cool!" in 1868?

[Dan Goncharoff]

And there, too.
DanG


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:00 PM, David A. Daniel wrote:
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> > I read your cool "On Language" article. Cool. But if the Times kerfuffle
> > broke out over anachronistic use of cool (modern sense, old timeframe)
> then
> > I'd say you could have created one of your own by saying "white
> > teeny-boppers circa 1952." To my knowledge there were no teeny-boppers,
> > labeled as such, until the mid-60's. No?
>
> Touché. Some sort of variation of Muphry's Law at work there.

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