[Ads-l] Antedating of "Collard Green"
Charles C Doyle
cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Wed Aug 6 12:27:40 UTC 2025
White folks eat collards too!
--Charlie
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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Shapiro, Fred <00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2025 4:23 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Antedating of "Collard Green"
collard green (OED 1858)
1832 Weekly Dispatch (London, Eng.) 30 July 8/4 (Newspapers.com)
Collard Greens 1s. 6d. to 8s.
NOTE; Although this is an important item in African American culture, the source above is obviously not African American.
Fred Shapiro
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