I couldn't help but dig a bit, and I managed turn up a couple of papers [1] [2] that suggests that the pre-Dawkins meme was variously called "mneme" (which spel

I couldn't help but dig a bit, and I managed turn up a couple of papers [1] [2] that suggests that the pre-Dawkins meme was variously called "mneme" (which spelling is closer to the Greek root of the word), and completely different things. The Dutch connection seems to be the Leiden school of linguistics [3]. [1] https://semioticon.com/virtuals/imitation/van_driem_paper.pdf https://semioticon.com/virtuals/imitation/van_driem_paper.pd... [2] https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/42774/bkj_ThesisFull.pdf?sequence=1 https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/42774/b... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leiden_school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leiden_school Edit: Formatting and typo