[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Tech" (= Technology)

[Shapiro, Fred]

The OED's first use for "tech" as a shortening of "technology" is 1881, when the MIT student newspaper The Tech was first published (that citation was contributed to the OED by me).  A citation, slightly earlier in the year, than the first issue of the newspaper, is the following:

"At Worcester the Worcester Technology nine defeated the Boston Techs. 15 to 11."
Boston Post, May 9, 1881

Fred Shapiro

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