Pretty Please (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

Barry Popik's web page mentions the subject phrase here:

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/pretty_please_wi
th_sugar_on_top/

OED has 1913.

"The Beginnings of Beauty" Shirley Dare. _The Daily Inter Ocean_
(Chicago, IL) Sunday, December 02, 1888; pg. 21; col B
"It does not seem necessary to say "please" or "thank you," for hourly
service, counted in the bond, either to servants or children, but they
can be told to do things in a pleasant way, that is as far from
domineering as it is from the "pretty please" fashion."
Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org