'sup?

[Robert Samuel]

I don't have background, however the expression is:

"t'sup"  a contraction of "what's up"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:09 AM
Subject: 'sup?


> For a student's query, and in the absence of an HDAS Volume 3, I'm
> trying to track down some background on "'sup?" as an encliticized
> truncation of "What's up?"   Anything on the history of both when and
> by whom would be welcome.
>
> Larry