dialect tidbit

[sagehen]

>Patti Kurtz writes:
>I've heard "Good night!" used (don't think I've used it myself) in the
>context Peter mentions below.  I also remember hearing people say "Good
>night nurse!" to mean the same thing (an exclamation of surprise and/or
>dismay).
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"Good night nurse!" was very familiar to me in my Nebraska childhood in the
'30s, though I hadn't thought of it in many, many years.  I think it came
from my father's family (Ohio,  c.1870-1910).
A. Murie