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    The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
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    1. chrisaldrich 08 Feb 2024
      Jane Austen was the first person to write the word outsider.
      outsiders neologisms Jane Austen

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    Daisy Hay · Rare, Obsolete, New, Peculiar: Dictionary People · LRB 19 October 2023
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    1. chrisaldrich 22 Oct 2023
      The first person to use the word ‘outsider’, according to the OED, was Jane Austen, in a gossipy letter to her sister Cassandra detailing the presence one evening of ‘a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders’
      outsiders Jane Austen neologisms
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