[Ads-l] "Leather-apron man" not in OED

[Joel Berson]

And if it's good enough for Cotton Mather ... .  I neglected to mention that the western (American) shore quotation of 1710 is in his "Bonifacius: An Essay... to Do Good".  Or at least so GBooks claims; it gives no preview.

Joel


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 From: George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
To: Joel Berson <berson at att.net> 
Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2015 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: "Leather-apron man" not in OED
 



If it's good enough for Ben Franklin, it should be good enough for the OED.

GAT





On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:

Should it be?
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>A quick GBooks search shows it in 1710, on both sides of the Atlantic.  It also appears during the Boston smallpox debate in 1722, in _A Friendly Debate; or, A Dialogue between Rusticus and Academicus_ and in Benjamin Franklin's first Silence Dogood essay, in the New-England Courant of April 2, 1722.
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>Joel
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