[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Bollywood"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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Bollywood (OED 1969)

1968 Times of India 22 Dec. 8 (ProQuest)

Almost all the hopes, the dreams and the ambitions, of the time when you were young and gay, have been .. bought off by Hollywood, Bollywood, or Mollywood.

Fred Shapiro

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