you're not the boss of me (1883)

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Sat Oct 20 05:24:36 UTC 2007


A few years ago I posted a 1953 cite for "you're not the boss of me":

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0502d&L=ads-l&P=29568

But now Google Book Search beats that by 70 years. Details here:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005037.html


--Ben Zimmer

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