[Ads-l] antedating "ufologist"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 20, 2018, at 8:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> saucerzine: 12,000+ raw Google hits.
> 
> (Well, OK, reducible to just 44.)
> 
> JL

OK, but if making the OED is the key threshold, “astronaut”, “ufologist”, and “extraterrestrial” have “saucerzine” beat from here to Alpha Centauri and back.  I was asked politely if I meant

• aubergine
• cancerine
• lacertine
• rucervine
• sauce-alone

Hard to choose.

LH

> 
> 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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