Chicago; Beefing

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   A few random items here.

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CHICAGO

   From the CHICAGO EVENING JOURNAL, 18 February 1886, pg. 2, col. 3:

   Foreign visitors at first call it Chick-ag-o; others call it Chy-cag-o;
and still others Chee-cay-go.  The "correct thing" is She-caw-go, and don't
you forget it.

   From the CHICAGO EVENING JOURNAL, 6 January 1886, pg. 2, col. 3:

   The "filosofical" _Tribune_ is more "thoroly" reformatory in its
"orthografy" than the most advanced "pedagog."

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BEEF

   RHHDAS has "beef" (to cry out, talk loudly) from 1812 and 1866; "beef"
(complaint, argument) is from 1899.
   From the CHICAGO TIMES, 5 August 1885, pg. 4, col. 6:

   The cattlemen have not received much encouragement at Washington.  There
is no use of "beefing;" they will have to vacate.