[Ads-l] antedating "ufologist"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 20, 2018, at 1:08 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I like the reference to "such unlikely jargon as 'astronaut.’”

And “extraterrestrial” to boot.  Well, Keefe did get it right on “saucerzine”.

LH  
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> 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:
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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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