[Ads-l] Antedating of "Folkloristics"

[Shapiro, Fred]

folkloristics (OED 1950)

1949 Middle Eastern Journal 3:111/2 (JSTOR)

Folkloristics in Soviet Armenia.

NOTE:  I have previously posted a 1944 citation for this word, but Dan Goncharoff pointed out that the 1944 cite was probably a misspelling of a German word.

Fred Shapiro

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