Query:PU!

[Beverly Flanigan]

And ditto for Minnesota, same era--thus clearly not dialectal, but perhaps
spread through radio, movie cartoons, etc.?  I never saw it written either,
but we all said it, usually pinching the nose at the same time.

At 11:20 AM 10/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
> > I can't provide QUITE that early a citation, but it was certainly
> > current during my childhoon in the late 40s-early 50s in So.
> > California.  I don't know that I've ever seen it written.
> >
> > Peter Mc.
>
>Ditto for Mississippi -- same era.
>    --Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)