[Ads-l] Digs: mystery citation?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 09:17:21AM -0400, dave at wilton.net wrote:
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> Oh, and the 1834 citation in DAE is spurious as well. The word doesn't appear until the 1859 revised edition of the quoted work. (And I couldn't find any 1837 citation in DAE. I don't know where HDAS got that.)
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DAE does have an 1837 for the 'region; locality' sense, from Alphonso Wetmore's _Gazetteer of the State of Missouri_, which does appear to be accurate (i.e. actually found with the cited language on the cited page of the actual 1837 edition of Wetmore's book).

Jesse Sheidlower

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