[Ads-l] Antedating of "Saditty"

[Ben Zimmer]

Bonnie Taylor-Blake shared this one last year.

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2025-January/166434.html

On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 4:08 PM Shapiro, Fred <
00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> saditty (OED 1948)
>
> 1936 Ouachita Citizen (West Monroe, La.) 7 Feb. 5/3 (Newspapers.com)
>
> The Monroe Packing Corporation's building rushed to completion. ... They
> were having their telephone installed Wednesday and the main office is
> looking real "seditty."
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
>

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