Social networking?

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Fri Mar 23 00:44:13 UTC 2012


Coincidentally, the date of the first citation in the OED's entry (taken
from the shooting script for _Reality Bites_).

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:34:44PM +0000, Baker, John wrote:
>         Around since at least 1992, see http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0607A&L=ADS-L&P=R3698.
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> John Baker
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Benjamin Barrett
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:04 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Social networking?
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> No citations, but Wiktionary has it at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/social#English. BB
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> On Mar 22, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > When I phone my bank to ask a question about the state of my checking
> > account, I'm asked for "the last four digits of my social."
> >
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