Antedating of "hashtag"

[Hugo]

Ah, good stuff. I had actually checked ATNW88-1 (and some others) but
skipped straight to the citations section on page 95 where the tweet
is absent. But there it is, in the introduction on page 83.

I think it's important enough to join the main citations in future
listings. The intro only noted the tweet wrote it as a two-word "hash
tag", but it's noteworthy it also included an alloneword "#hashtag".

Hugo



> The Wikipedia entry should be updated. I found out about Stowe Boyd's
8/25/07 Twitter post in Feb. 2013, about a month after the WOTY vote:

> https://twitter.com/bgzimmer/status/299970511411216384

> I made sure the tweet was the first citation in our "Among the New Words"
treatment of "hashtag" in the Spring 2013 issue of AmSp:

> http://bit.ly/ATNW88-1

> Stowe Boyd himself quoted the ATNW intro on his blog:

> http://stoweboyd.com/post/52447334415/the-first-time-i-saw-a-hashtag

> --bgz

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org