Comments on: Snob Before and After Thackeray http://blog.oup.com/2008/05/snob-before-and-after-thackeray/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Stephen Goranson http://blog.oup.com/2008/05/snob-before-and-after-thackeray/#comment-145812 Stephen Goranson Thu, 15 May 2008 10:26:31 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1801#comment-145812 Two more early uses of "snob": Westminster Journal and London Political Miscellany (London, England), Saturday, August 25, 1770; Issue 1329 ...but what is this [broken pavement] more than honest Snob has taken notice of several times?.... Your Old Correspondent, The Wood Street Cobbler The Merry Medley, consisting of Essays, Letters, Cards, Epigrams, Riddles, Ballads, Comic Epistles, and Intelligence Extraordinary, with a Stroke of some Eminent Characters of the Present Times. Humphrey [or Humphry--copy at Yale listed both ways on Worldcat] Snob, [pseud.], Esq. of Drury-Lane. London, 1772. Two more early uses of “snob”:

Westminster Journal and London Political Miscellany (London, England), Saturday,
August 25, 1770; Issue 1329
…but what is this [broken pavement] more than honest Snob has taken notice of
several times?….
Your Old Correspondent,
The Wood Street Cobbler

The Merry Medley, consisting of Essays, Letters, Cards, Epigrams, Riddles, Ballads, Comic Epistles, and Intelligence Extraordinary, with a Stroke of some Eminent
Characters of the Present Times.
Humphrey [or Humphry--copy at Yale listed both ways on Worldcat] Snob, [pseud.], Esq. of Drury-Lane. London, 1772.

]]> By: Stephen Goranson http://blog.oup.com/2008/05/snob-before-and-after-thackeray/#comment-145800 Stephen Goranson Wed, 14 May 2008 17:49:39 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1801#comment-145800 An earlier citation: Middlesex Journal and Evening Advertiser (London, England), Thursday, December 8, 1774; Issue 890. Last night a new Comic Ballad of two acts, was performed at the Theatre Royale Drury Lane, called the COBBLER..... AIR IV..... Pray, pray, be quiet neighbour Snob, Don't act now so contrary: Make love to me--a pretty job, I'm quite in a quandary. An earlier citation: Middlesex Journal and Evening Advertiser (London, England), Thursday, December 8, 1774; Issue 890.
Last night a new Comic Ballad of two acts, was performed at the Theatre Royale Drury Lane, called the COBBLER….. AIR IV…..
Pray, pray, be quiet neighbour Snob,
Don’t act now so contrary:
Make love to me–a pretty job,
I’m quite in a quandary.

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