AI was not right about tweens...it was way off!

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

 

I was scanning a small collection of The American Girl magazines from the 1940s. The magazines were kinda rough, so I was scanning by hand on a flatbed scanner instead of a sheetfed scanner. If I was using a sheetfed scanner I may have not seen the ad. 

For some reason this ad by Dell Tween caught my eye and it made me wonder when the word tween was first used. I Googled it and AI said it was the late 1980's. I hope they don't put AI in charge of the nukes.

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