[Ads-l] Antedating of Unc
Frank Taylor
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Sun Sep 27 02:41:21 UTC 2026
I'm looking for the earliest attestation of Unc that we have in media. I
just caught that in the movie Creed (2015), the main character calls Rocky
Balboa "unc". I'd thought this was a newer-ish term, but apparently I just
haven't been paying attention.
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