[Ads-l] antedating "ufologist"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I like the reference to "such unlikely jargon as 'astronaut.'"

JL

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake <
b.taylorblake at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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