2 Responses to My usage guides

1. paulnance says:

   April 21, 2015 at 4:36 pm

   The earliest US example I’ve found so far is Seattle Daily Times 13 Oct 1946, in a discussion of teaching materials used in public schools. It also refers to a locally-producef series of three texts, titled “Usage Guide for Language Arts”

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2. Ingrid Tieken says:

   April 21, 2015 at 8:14 pm

   Thanks, Paul! This antedates the OED by five years.

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