In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
om>, "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" writes:
>They did it for the telephone system in the 1920s - the term phony
>appears in the English language in 1900 when the telephone started to
>spread. [The alternative etymology in certain editions of Webster via
>Fawney appears to be unsupported guesswork]
Source, please? The OED lists it as "of uncertain origin". (It does
agree with your time statement.)
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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