[Ads-l] antedating "ufologist"

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

Peter is correct -- 1957, not 1956 for the Detroit cite.

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> From: MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
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> Subject: Re: antedating "ufologist"
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> _Detroit Free Press_ 13 Nov 1956 p 1 col 2 "They meet to debate mystery sightings, attend lectures by visiting Ufologists (experts on
> Unidentified Flying Objects.)"
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> Surrey, Brit. Col., Canada _Surrey Leader_ 11 Dec 1958 p 16 col 2 "Hence the "experts" call themselves Ufologists, and their study ufology."
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> > Ooh, here's a very slight antedating (May, 1959) for "ufologist" ...
> >
> > http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-October/113675.h
> > tml
> >
> > -- Bonnie
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > 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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