Antedating of "Wellerism"
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Nov 19 13:35:08 UTC 2006
Wellerism (OED 1839)
1838 _Macon Telegraph_ 2 Oct. 2 (America's Historical Newspapers)
_Professional Wellerisms_ -- You are a wery nice man; tisnt every day we
see the likes of you, as the heditor said to his subscriber, who called at
the office to pay his subscription in hadvance.
Fred Shapiro
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