comic 1860s pronunciation?

[Jonathan Lighter]

About 40 Raw Googlits, incl. one from Elaine Shepard's _DOOM Pussy_, famed
here for the "whole nine yards."  At least one from as recently as 2007.

Who'd 'a' thunk it?

JL

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> In the Army: "comboot bats."
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> -Wilson
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> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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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."
> >
> > 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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