[Ads-l] 1968 Usage of "Trekkie" ?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

I tried once; I'll try again. Fanlore.org alleges several uses of "trekkie" in the zine Plak-Tow, issue #8. Apparently the only issue of Plak-Tow fully available online is #6 (at fanac.org), which does not seem to contain "trekkie". There are images of the cover of #8, but that's it. I think I gave up at that point. I now see that fanlore.org elsewhere reproduces the first page of the essay that is said to contain "trekkie", but the use doesn't appear on that page.

The University of Iowa library has several extensive collections of zines; they don't specifically catalog Plak-Tow #8 (they do have #1-7, #11, #12, more copies of #1, etc., in various sub-collections), but I've emailed to see if they might in fact have #8 somewhere.

It seems very clear that this is authentic; I just need to see it to confirm.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 04:43:11PM +0000, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> Jesse,
> 
> The OED and HDSF have a 1969 citation found by me as their earliest use of the word "trekkie."
> 
> The website fanlore.org sets forth an alleged 1968 usage of this word:
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> https://fanlore.org/wiki/Trekkie_(glossary_term)
> 
> Has anyone checked out this alleged source ?
> 
> Fred Shapiro
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