[Ads-l] Antedating of "The Dozens"

[Shapiro, Fred]

dozens (OED 1911)

1910 _Vicksburg Evening Post_ 8 Mar. 1/3 (Newspapers.com)  A lot of colored kids who got in trouble while playing "dozen" [sic] were up in the city court today. They were reprimanded and discharged by the mayor.

Fred Shapiro

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