peops = peeps

[Jonathan Lighter]

Usenet finds a 1984 "peeps" in the common hip-hop sense of "people; friends; relatives" etc.  But I remember seeing a couple of exx. of "peops" (sic) = people in circa 1900 writings.

Any newspaper occurrences findable ?

JL

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