[Ads-l] antedating "wilco"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Didn't one of the earlier messages in the thread have "Roger" from earlier
in 1941?

https://archive.org/details/TM1-460-1941

DanG

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:10 PM, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY
RDECOM AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

> _Muncie [IN] Evening Press_ 31 Jul 1941 p 15 col 1
>
> " "Remember your signals.  Save words. 'Willco' means 'will comply.'
> 'Roger' means 'message received.' " "
>
> Note that this may be an antedating of "Roger" as well; OED has 1941 Amer
> Speech 16 168/1.
>
> >
> >
> > ----
> >
> > OED: 1946
> >
> > 1941 _Sunday Oregonian_ (Portland) (Dec. 7) 90 [ReadEx]:
> > The Tower answers, "Tower to four-seven-two. Land in the east. Wheels
> down and locked. Go ahead." I say, "Four-seven-two, wilco."
> >
> > Earlier, "Tower to four-seven-two. You may take off, Roger."
> >
> > The writer is an air cadet at Randolph Field, but this use of "Roger"
> (no, not his name) seems wrong or archaic (i.e., new to me).
> >
> > It should be "Out." Or perhaps "Over." Shouldn't it?
> >
> > JL
> >
> >
>
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