Antedating of "Motel"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Maybe journalists were lazy or credulous then too.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED


ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:

>How could a single word have been "copyrighted"? Were the IP laws
>different in 1925?
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>Sent from my iPad
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>On Nov 25, 2011, at 9:19 PM, "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
>wrote:
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>> motel (OED3 1925 Mar.)
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>> 1925 _L.A. Times_ 18 Jan. B7 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  The
>word "Motel," which has been copyrighted, means motor hotels.
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>> Fred Shapiro
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