[Ads-l] Antedating of Jeepers

[Baker, John]

Merriam-Webster has the exclamation "jeepers" from 1927.  Here's an earlier usage, in a purported letter to the editor of the Mount Carmel (Pennsylvania) News, Oct. 15, 1925, p. 2 (Newspapers.com):

"Well, anyhoe, I ketchin an evryting shees go purty gude but 2 mooch slow until we hittingk sucha stashun how you callit "Parkin Place" - den train shees go down big hill to town witch Connduckter callin "Mahnoy City" - den train shees backin up fur longk time and By Jeepers we stop "Parkin Place" again!"


John Baker

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org