[Ads-l] Antedating of "Esperanto"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Great work! Here is Esperanto (as the name of a language) one week
earlier in the same publication.

Periodical: The Dominion Illustrated: A Canadian Pictorial Weekly
Periodical Location: Montreal, Canada
Date: July 7, 1888
Article: (Filler item)
Quote Page 11
https://archive.org/details/dominion_illustrated_july1888/page/n9/mode/2up?q=Esperanto

[Begin excerpt]
Another craze in the way of Volapük, Esperanto or Universal Language
is "World English" which Alexander Melville Bell proposes by kindly
"amending" our alphabet and spelling on scientific principles.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 10:18 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Elsewhere in that same 1888 article: "He is not required to know any other
> language than his own, nor are his foreign correspondents required to know
> the Esperanto language." Seems like a transitional case, where the name of
> the creator is getting applied to the name of the language and can be
> interpreted either way.
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 2:29 AM mr_peter_morris at outlook.com <
> mr_peter_morris at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> > I've searched, and reviewed  references  that pre-date 1891 but they
> > mostly  refer to  "Dr Esperanto's International Language"   rather
> > than using Esperanto for the name of the  language itself.
> >
> >
> > Actually, here's one from 14th July 1888   that appears to use it as the
> > name.
> >
> > "This is the grammar of Esperanto almost complete and we may proceed to
> > translate a sample sentence of Esperanto. "
> >
> >
> > https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Dominion_Illustrated/8DXM16DjChgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Esperanto&pg=PA30&printsec=frontcover
> >
> >
> > ------ Original Message ------
> > From "Martin Purdy" <00000bd8cf391c5b-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > <mailto:00000bd8cf391c5b-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>>
> > To ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU<mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Date 13/09/2024 04:51:22
> > Subject Re: Antedating of "Esperanto"
> >
> > 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 attempt in 1888 was apparently withdrawn and destroyed, but that's another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<mailto: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.
> >
> >
>
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