[Ads-l] tongue-twister 1858, 1881

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Excellent citations, Peter.
While searching I noticed Peter Reitan had already clipped an instance
of "tongue-twister" in the "Eaton Democrat" newspaper on April 23,
1857:

https://www.newspapers.com/article/eaton-democrat/60415259/

Here is a slightly earlier citation in Google Books.

Year: 1855
Journal: The Transactions of the American Medical Association
Volume 8
Article: Report of the Committee on Dysentery
Authors: H. Taylor M.D. and J. H. Beech M.D.
Start Page 545, Quote Page 568
Printed for the American Medical Association by T. K. and P. G.
Collins, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

https://books.google.com/books?id=1MICAAAAYAAJ&q=twister#v=snippet&

[Begin excerpt]
Three Rivers. This is at the junction of the St. Joseph, Portage, and
Rock Rivers. The latter river is not named from any particular
out-cropping of mineral strata on its course, but as Indian tradition
says, from a single block of granite rock, of about 2,000 solid feet,
lying near the mouth of the stream. The present name being a
translation, "in brief," of the original tongue-twister, meaning "the
river of the rock."
[end excerpt]

Garson

On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 11:47 PM mr_peter_morris at outlook.com
<mr_peter_morris at outlook.com> wrote:
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> previously antedated to  1893
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> https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2020-October/158206.html
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> Here's a cite from Ballou's Pictorial,  December 11 1858
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> https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Ballou_s_Pictorial/vjtK-uF8-EIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22tongue+twister%22&pg=RA2-PA378&printsec=frontcover
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> "Don't trouble yourself to repeat that terrible tongue twister of a sentence.
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> And here's a cite from 1881
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> https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Two_Turns_of_the_Wheel/r6SeTnWV7LAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22tongue+twister%22&pg=PA169&printsec=frontcover
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> "That is all I could make out of the paper for every other syllable
> was a tongue twister of at least ten syllables."
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