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Thread #169917   Message #4108800
Posted By: Jack Campin
04-Jun-21 - 02:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Who first lived in your house/pad ?
Subject: RE: BS: Who first lived in your house/pad ?
The last place I lived was an Edinburgh tenement sold as separate flats in 1844. We have a copy of the title deed. The first owner was described as a "minibus driver", which is a good few years earlier than the first use of the word "minibus" the OED knows about.

(Though I know of another use of the word from Edinburgh in 1838, so our title deed doesn't make linguistic history).