Stan Carey<p>Today in: It's Usually Older Than You Think</p><p>Horace Walpole's "With all sorts of queer feels about me" (correspondence, c.1746) is the oldest recorded use of "feels" as a noun, per OED</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/feels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OED</span></a></p>