[Ads-l] Another 1969 Antedating of "Trekkie"

Sat Feb 23 03:46:31 UTC 2019

I located some 1967 instances of Trekker via newspapers.com, but Peter
had already clipped them one hour earlier. So he will probably report
on them soon.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 8:56 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> I meant to type "pointed ears."
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> Fred Shapiro
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> Subject: Another 1969 Antedating of "Trekkie"
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> Trekkie (OED 1976)
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> 1969 _Dayton Daily News_ 28 July 7/1 (Newspapers.com)  No funny hats and rubber drunks at the Midwestcon.  One or two fans of the television show, "Star Trek" -- called "Trekkies" -- showed up wearing pointed hears, but missing are the more obvious eccentrics the mass media mischief messengers like to write about.
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