[Ads-l] prequel (1922)

[Ben Zimmer]

My Wall Street Journal column this week is on the history of the word
"prequel": https://on.wsj.com/3UHJW8x

OED3, MWCD, and various online sources give 1958 as the earliest date, from
a review by Anthony Boucher in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Here it is from 1922.

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Publishers' Weekly, Aug. 12, 1922, p. 524 (advt.)
A Prequel not a Sequel
Dorothy Canfield's new novel
ROUGH HEWN
is the story of Neal and Marise before they appeared in
The Brimming Cup
https://archive.org/details/sim_publishers-weekly_1922-08-12_102_7/page/524/mode/2up
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--bgz

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