anecdata

[Victor Steinbok]

Wiktionary and UD are way forward on this one. Oddly enough, so is
Longman http://goo.gl/7M2pk .  WordSpy has it back to March 6, 1992
(nothing earlier in GNA--Westlaw or Lexis might do better). 31400 raw ghits

The hook is here http://goo.gl/6qwGj  (just so you don't think I
randomly pick words out of obscure dictionaries)

     VS-)

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