Date:    Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:18:59 -0400
<br>From:    Laurence Horn <laurence.horn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
<br>Subject: P.S. on PREPONE
<br>
<br>When I noted that
<br>> The first [Nexis] citation, curiously, comes
<br>>from the "On Language" column of the N. Y. Times Magazine, but not on
<br>>Safire's watch.  One of his summer replacements, Steven Weisman, wrote on
<br>>12 July 1987 about the glories of Indian English, citing "prepone"...
<br>I forgot to mention that this Mr. Weisman's day job was New Delhi bureau
<br>chief for the Times.  I also didn't mean to suggest that the verb
<br>originated in or around 1987; the tenor of the citations was that this is a
<br>fairly long-standing item in the lexicon of Indian English.
<br>
<br>Larry
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