comic 1860s pronunciation?

[Wilson Gray]

In the Army: "comboot bats."

-Wilson

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 1862 in _Minnesota History_ XXV (March, 1944) 27: It will be a joke on the
> band if the report proves to be a "ho-ax."
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> Hoe-axe! Get it!  Maybe you had to be there. Anyway, this level of word play
> seems to have had somewhat greater prestige then than it does now.  Consider
> _ossifer_ (officer) and _avalanche_ (ambulance) and _jigadier brindle_, all
> in HDAS.
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> Isaac L. Taylor (1837-1863), a schoolteacher, was the writer.
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> JL
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