[Ads-l] antedating "ufologist"

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

Ooh, here's a very slight antedating (May, 1959) for "ufologist" ...

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-October/113675.html

-- Bonnie

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 1963: OED
>
> 1960, transcript of radio show _Washington Viewpoint_ (Dec. 20), in David
> Michael Jacobs _History of the UFO Controversy in America_ (Bloomington:
> Indiana U. P., 1975) 176: [A] small group of euphologists who have a
> typewriter and read a newspaper account of the thing, and -- you see, you
> really can't compare.
>
> Jacobs interposes [_sic_] after "euphologists."
>
> JL
>
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