[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Climate Change"

[Shapiro, Fred]

The year of the earlier citation is 1854.

Fred Shapiro

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climate change (OED 1854 [15 Dec.])

The same quotation as the OED's first use occurs slightly earlier, in Portland (Maine) Press Herald 30 Nov. 2/4 (Newspapers.com).

Fred Shapiro

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