[Ads-l] antedating "ufologist"

[Jonathan Lighter]

saucerzine: 12,000+ raw Google hits.

(Well, OK, reducible to just 44.)

JL

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Feb 20, 2018, at 1:08 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > I like the reference to "such unlikely jargon as 'astronaut.’”
>
> And “extraterrestrial” to boot.  Well, Keefe did get it right on
> “saucerzine”.
>
> LH
> >
> >
> > 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
> >>>
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