[Ads-l] Antedating of "Sociolinguistic"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Nov 21 01:53:50 UTC 2022


Ah, thanks, Ben.

On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 8:52 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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