Word: argentineans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name like Argentinean or Argentineanian or Argentineaninean would be a much more succulent mouthful, and would have the further advantage of giving a lot of work to typesetters. Five English newspapers were published in Buenos Aires,-two daily, three weekly, but they persisted in referring to the inhabitants as Argentines. So did James Bryce and W. H. Hudson and other writers on South America. I was becoming discouraged...
...when the distinguished Mr. Luis Firpo visited the U. S., our sports writers not only pronounced his name Furpo,* but also they called him, among other things, an Argentinean. This was encouraging, but it was nothing to the thrill of seeing, on p. 42 of your issue of Oct. 11, the concocted word Argentinean twice repeated...
That night Argentinean radio listeners heard a Boris Godounov with no Boris, for whenever Chaliapin sang, their loudspeakers were mute. Next day critics and persons who had witnessed the performance acclaimed Chaliapin. But the Argentine press, outside of its music columns, flayed Chaliapin as a haughty flouter...