Antedating of "Teenager"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Sep 3 20:32:39 UTC 2012
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
> teenager (OED _1941_)
>
> _1915_ _Daily Tulsa World_ 13 Feb. 6 (America's Historical Newspapers) (head=
> ing) Sunday meeting for teen-agers.
Wow!
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-Wilson
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