[Ads-l] Possible Antedating of "Bromance"

[Bill Mullins]

A horse named "Miracle Bromance" ran at Foxboro on 9/14/1976 (per the Quincy MA Patriot Ledger​ 9/15/1976, p 33.)

There are several back issues of Big Brother here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/skateboarding/comments/26jtfd/download_early_issues_of_big_brother_magazine_and/

I paged through a couple and didn't find "bromance".



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The OED's earliest citation for the word "bromance" is dated 2001.  According to Wikipedia, "Dave Carnie<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Carnie> is credited with coining the term as editor of the skateboard magazine Big Brother<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(magazine)> in the 1990s to refer specifically to the sort of relationships that develop between skaters who spent a great deal of time together."  I have not attempted to check on the accuracy or details of the Wikipedia statement.

Fred Shapiro


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