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An Emoticon in a Lincoln Speech from 1862? ;)

January 23, 2009 by Phil Gons

A blog post at the City Room Blog at NYTimes.com has received some attention this week. In “Is That an Emoticon in 1862?” the author explores whether a ;) in a transcript of a Lincoln speech is an emoticon or a typo. Some are convinced that this is the earliest example of an emoticon. Most seem to think it’s simply a typo in the form of accidental transposition (e.g., see the comments here and here).

Here’s an image of the text under discussion:

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Filed Under: Miscellany Tagged With: ASV, emoticon, justification, KJV, Lincoln, mistake, punctuation, smiley, typo

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