"See You Later"

[Jonathon Green]

Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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>Jon, Why the hell not?  We are the custodians of language.
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>P.S.: If anybody besides Jon, Jesse, Grant, & Erin ever used this term, let us know.
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I ought to throw this in, then:

2004 Tim Dorsey _Cadillac Beach_ 189: 'How’d you hear?’ ‘Jawed with him
on the Ameche.’

That said, it occurs in a page of conscious archaisms - Dorsey has a
deranged modern cop pretending to be his 40s equivalent - nonetheless...

JG