When did 'waitlists' arrive in th UK?

[clam]

Ought it not to be waitING lists? Or am I just an old fart?

[clam]

OK, so I can stop being annoyed about it for the time being then?

[Mintyy]

I've just advanced searched it and it has only been used by one particular poster (who seems to use a lot of abbreviations/borderline text speak) so perhaps it hasn't become commonplace on Mumsnet just yet.

[sittingatmydeskagain]

I saw it for the first time today, and read it as waistlines. Very confused on a primary education board.

[Mintyy]

Are you sure the people writing about it aren't from the US?

[clam]

On here, for a start! Mainly with regard to school applications, and people being on "waitlists" for specific schools.

[Mintyy]

No . I was responding to the thread title.

[meditrina]

Was that to me?

I looked it up in OED.

[Mintyy]

Where have you seen it?

[meditrina]

It's fairly new (early 1960s in US, in airline context only)

But it had started to spread to other anglophone countries by the 1970s, reaching UK by end of that decade, as an alternative to the earlier established form 'waiting list'