believe you me in oed

[Jonathan Lighter]

Common in WWII, but more often "I shit you not."

JL

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> There's "I kid you not", of Jack Paar (at least evanescent) fame.
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> LH
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> On Sep 23, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > Nice one, Dave.
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> > Just check the syntax.
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> > JL
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> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:19 AM, David Barnhart <
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> >> The turn of phrase must go back further than 1808 (OED's earliest
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