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[Laurence Horn]

Who will be the Duke of IRL?

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 5:06 PM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 04:39:42PM -0500, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > 'In real life':
> >
> > 2019
> >
> https://medium.com/@davescheirer/midway-movie-live-action-from-1976-versus-cgi-from-2019-3c6a17abe506
> >
> > IRL (in real life), no Avengers flew from carriers during the Battle of
> > Midway.  -
> >
> > 2004 in UrbanD.
>
> And 1988 in OED:
>
> 1988 _Hershey Fonts_ in _comp.sources.wanted_ (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Jan.
> INTERNET: msn at bikini.cis.ufl.edu I.R.L. Michael S. Newsome. 3632 NW 4th
> Pl. [etc.].
>
> Antedating from Garson or Ben in 3, 2, 1....
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