[Ads-l] Antedating of "Phoney"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Aug 4, 2019, at 12:47 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Which leaves "What?”

Counterfeit Willow Ware?

> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 11:36 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 4, 2019, at 11:30 AM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> I'm curious: license plates, or what?
>>> 
>>> MAM
>> 
>> Not in 1892, barring time travel:
>> https://www.thoughtco.com/1903-the-first-license-plates-us-1779187
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 10:52 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
>> wrote:
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>>>> phoney (OED 1893)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 1892 _Daily Plainsman_ (Huron, S.D.) 11 Aug. 1/4 (Newspapers.com)  This
>>>> gang has succeeded in floating in the Twin Cities an immense amount of
>> the
>>>> finest work of "phoney" plates and molds ever seen by the officials.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Fred Shapiro
>> 
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