[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Esperanto"

[Ben Zimmer]

I clipped this for future reference. Headline is "Esperanto. The New
International Language Which is to Supersede Volapuk," and it's reprinted
from the St. Louis Republican.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/boston-evening-transcript-esperanto/155215557/


On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 1:28 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> Here's pushing it back further:  The article that Peter found appeared
> identically in the Boston Evening Transcript, Dec. 17, 1887, page 12
> (Newspapers.com).
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> mr_peter_morris at outlook.com <mr_peter_morris at OUTLOOK.COM>
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2024 2:28 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Antedating of "Esperanto"
>
> 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 attempt in 1888 was apparently withdrawn and destroyed, but that's another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.
>
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org