Antedating of "yeah" - sort of

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Stephen. I tried to verify the ex. and found the correct date, as indicated on the title page, to be "1948."

  JL
Stephen Goranson <goranson at DUKE.EDU> wrote:
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google advanced book search (yeah yes date -1800) gives the text below
as 1798,
United States Reports: Cases Adjuged in the Supreme Court Page 575
by United States Supreme Court, Courts, Pennsylvania Courts- 1798:

"Q. Yes. You picked up the hammer. Where was the hammer? A. It was on the dish
closet." "Q. On the dish closet? A. Yeah." "Q. In what room? ...

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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