[Ads-l] Antedating of "Journalist"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Let me try to explain what is going on.  I am aware of the fact that the incomplete citations I have been posting are not that informative, and I apologize for that.  I discover a lot of antedatings, far more than anyone else (other than the staff of the OED) has ever discovered.  I do my best to preserve the information by sending the antedatings (usually with very full details) to the OED and to ADS-L.  The antedatings for which I don't give full information are probably somewhat annoying to the OED and to ADS-Lers.

The reason why I sometimes give incomplete information is that I am an unusually busy person, with a responsible full-time job, a lot of family obligations, a bunch of health problems, and many scholarly projects such as the Yale Book of Quotations.  I just don't have time to always dot the i's and cross the t's.  My recent batch of antedatings is deriving from my realization that I had a fair number of significant antedatings from 5 to 10 years ago that I never sent to the OED or ADS-L.  My options are either to do the work to fill in the details or to preserve the antedatings by sending them on as is, and I have chosen the latter course of action.  I appreciate the forebearance of those on this list who put up with my clogging their inboxes.

Fred Shapiro



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From: Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2020 10:22 PM
To: Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Antedating of "Journalist"

Hi Fred! Great work with the latest batch of antedatings. Any reason you're not giving the actual citation text for a lot of these? Especially for those who don't have EEBO or the other databases you're using, the posts aren't hugely informative.

Best,
Ben


On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 9:30 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu<mailto:fred.shapiro at yale.edu>> wrote:
journalist  (OED 1693)

1635 in Early English Books Online

Fred Shapiro

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