[Ads-l] Antedating of "Tiddlywinks"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Mar 2, 2019, at 6:59 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I keep reading that as "Confessions of the Anteater".
> 
> Mark Manel

This came up a little while ago (luckily I save all my e-mails so I can be sure I’m not hallucinating the exchange).  Mark mentioned reading Fred’s confessions as produced by an anteater—

> On Oct 3, 2018, at 12:38 PM, Mark Mandel <Mark.A.Mandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I'd like a copy. (At first I saw it as "Confessions of an Anteater"!)
> 
> Mark Mandel


--I agreed with both observations and suggested a logo, with Arnold refining the idea.  

> On Oct 3, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> Me too and me too, respectively.  Indeed, my mailer tells me that when I type “antedater" I really meant “anteater”.  Maybe someone should work on a logo—an anteater, perhaps with bifocals, perusing a dictionary, with the “d” of dictionary dropping gently between the (first) <e> and (second) <a> of the ANTE_ATER caption.

i think we *definitely* need a logo of this sort: anteater with fleeting D.

arnold

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No progress has made on the plan, I regret to say.  

LH

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> On Sat, Mar 2, 2019, 10:43 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> As those who have read my article, "Confessions of the Antedater," know,
>> this is an antedating of special significance to me.
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>> Fred Shapiro
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>> tiddlywinks (OED, s.v. tiddlywink 2.b., 1889 [15 May])
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>> 1889 _Times_ 8 Feb. 1/5 (Times Digital Archive)  TIDDLEDY-WINKS -- Just
>> out, a splendid NEW GAME, price 1s. ... At all dealers. -- JAQUES and SON,
>> Hatton-garden, E. C.
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