the last additions to whiting

[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, GEORGE THOMPSON wrote:

> 1847:   as the showman says, "you pays your money and you takes your
> choice"
>         Sunday Times and Noah's Weekly Messenger, June 27, 1847, p. 2, col.
> 3; also ST&NWM, July 18, 1847, p. 2, col. 6
>
> not in DAE; nor Whiting, EAPPP; Taylor & Whiting: 1869 (Money, #11);
> OED?

Note that OED has 1845 and 1846 examples of this.


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