[Ads-l] Antedating of "Sociolinguistic"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Nov 21 01:52:45 UTC 2022


Out of curiosity, Fred--what was the sociolinguistic problem in question?
It would be nice to know the first one that was so identified.

LH

On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 8:34 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> sociolinguistic (OED 1942)
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> 1939 Kansas City Star​ 27 Feb. 16/2 (Newspapers.com)  A wholesome and
> wholesale way of coping with this sociolinguistic problem.
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> Fred Shapiro
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