Antedating of "hashtag"

[Ben Zimmer]

You'll find the tweet cited on p. 96 with the attributive uses, as the
tweet reads "i support the hash tag convention." The meta-hashtag
"#hashtag" is difficult to interpret on its own, so that's why we
chose to focus on how it was used in running text (with the
explanation in the intro providing the chronology).

--bgz


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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".
>
>
>> 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

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