[Ads-l] Antedating the word "slew" ' large number or quantity of something'

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED: 1839

JL

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
wrote:

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> Can someone post the citations for slew (as in =E2=80=98he asked me a =
> whole slew of questions=E2=80=9D)? I believe we=E2=80=99ve got a very =
> fine antedating.
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> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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