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Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Aug 25 01:44:54 UTC 2011

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OED has this in the sense of "Hey!" only from 1958.

1920 _Company "A," Twenty-Third Engineers, A.E.F._ (Chicago: n.p.) 112:
Company Sayings [1917-19] ... When do we eat? ... Yo!! Breakfast.

JL

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