[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bae"

[Shapiro, Fred]

bae (OED 2006)

"Bae" appears in the lyrics of the 2004 song "Leave (Get Out)."  Still earlier, on March 14th, 2003, Urban Dictionary user Trong submitted an entry for “bae,” defining it as a “bastardization of the term ‘babe’.”

Fred Shapiro

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