[Ads-l] Antedating Euchre

[Shapiro, Fred]

In Newspapers.com, the advertisement mentioning "Ucre" appears as early as the Tennessean, Jan. 9, 1836.

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: Antedating Euchre

OED has 1841 for the card game "euchre".

1836 _Nashville Republican_ Apr 19 4/1 [display adv, ProQuest Hist. Newspapers]
"11 Gro. Bartly and Ely's, Eagle, Decatur, Merry-andrew, Highlander, Poker, and Ucre playing Cards"


Previously antedated to 1837:
https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.linguistlist.org%2Fpipermail%2Fads-l%2F2015-July%2F138210.html&data=02%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40yale.edu%7Cbade114ef4ba42f44cc008d8484b8b37%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637338836578605351&sdata=QNP0NETm7blTnSSOz601FbqRgZ0xb%2BrgFOy5saI2VWg%3D&reserved=0

This is also quite early for "poker" (OED has 1832).

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