[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bae"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

I note that Merriam Webster gives a date of 1983 for this entry; would love to know where this comes from!

Jesse Sheidlower

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 10:09:42PM +0000, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> bae (OED 2006)
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> "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’.”
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> Fred Shapiro
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