[Ads-l] [EXTERNAL] Re: Antedating of "Bae"

[Joanne Despres]

Here you go, Jesse:

MY BAE,

STARTING OUT OUR 7TH YEAR AND I.T.A.L.Y. STILL AND ALWAYS!



LOVE, SUNSHINE



p. 31

Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)

February 14, 1983

[Newspapers.com]


On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 5:38 PM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

> 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)
> >
> > "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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> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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