[Ads-l] Historically Interesting Antedating of "Mootness"

[Shapiro, Fred]

mootness (OED 1922)

1896 Law Notes​ Jan. 32/2 (HeinOnline)

Some of the speakers doubted the "mootness" of the "Moot."

NOTE: This is an historically interesting antedating of the OED.  What was probably the first computer-assisted antedating of all time, found by me in 1978 or 1979, was an antedating of the word "mootness" from 1946 to 1940.

Fred Shapiro

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