"Kye bosh" by Dickens (1835)

[Wilson Gray]

Thanks, Doug! Now, I know the word's pronunciation. I'll probably go
to my grave withought ever having heard this word pronounced in life.

-Wilson

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
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> I guess this is nothing new, but just for the record: Dickens' famous
> "kye-bosh"/"kye-bosk" passage appeared in 1835, and with 'normal'
> spelling with "-sh".
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> Here it is, at N'archive:
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> _Bell's Life in London, and Sporting Chronicle_, 27 Sep. 1835: p. 1:
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> ["SCENES AND CHARACTERS. -- NO. I.]
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> [signed "TIBBS"]
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> <<("Hoo-roar," ejaculates a pot-boy in parenthesis, "put the kye-bosh on
> her, Mary.")>>
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> [The hyphen in "kye-bosh" is at the end of a line and therefore may or
> may not be intended as an essential feature of the word.]
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> -- Doug Wilson
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