[Ads-l] Antedating of "Esperanto"

[Martin Purdy]

I'm surprised the first traced reference is as late as 1891, since the first English-language Esperanto textbook was published in 1889 (an earlier attempt in 1888 was apparently withdrawn and destroyed, but that's another story).
Martin 
 

    On Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at 12:09:55 PM GMT+12, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:  
 
 Esperanto (OED 1892)

1891 Sun (N.Y.) 12 Jan. 9/1 (Newspapers.com)

Associations are being organized all over Germany to hasten the introduction of a universal language called Esperanto.

Fred Shapiro


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