[Ads-l] Antedating by Barry Popik of "Supermodel"

[Laurence Horn]

Too bad.  I was hoping I might run into Barry on campus (now that it’s begun to be possible to run into people on campus).

LH

> On Mar 2, 2021, at 8:44 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> I must be pretty out of it tonight.  I meant to type "barrypopik.com has antedatings of _supermodel_."
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> Fred Shapiro
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> From: Shapiro, Fred
> Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 8:41 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Antedating by Barry Popik of "Supermodel"
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> I see that barry.popik at yale.edu has antedatings of _supermodel_ (OED 1967):
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> 6 October 1942, Chicago Daily Tribune, pg. 21:
> "Super" Models Are Signed for Fashion Show
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> So you want to be a model!
> by Clyde Matthews (Dressner -- ed.)
> Garden City, NY: Halcyon House
> Revised edition 1948 (original edition 1943)
> Pg. 256:
> She will be a super-model, but the girl in her will be like the girl in you -- quite ordinary, but ambitious and eager for personal development.
> (In another edition, this second-to-last page is Page 237. The "model of tomorrow" is discussed -- ed.)
> 
> Fred Shapiro
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