nyaa nyaa/ naa naa

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 14, 2012, at 8:09 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 2/14/2012 12:22 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>> My personal recollection of text and pronunciation is "ollie ollie in
>> free"
>
> I have asked two friends for their recollections.  The three of us
> all recall the phrase and pronunciation as above.
>
> One, a woman now in her eighties, grew up in Connecticut and the
> Worcester, Mass. area.
>
> The second, male, was a lad in NYC in the mid-940s.

Aha!  I'm not alone, then.  (Well, I was a lad in NYC 5-10 years after that.  Give or take a millennium.)

LH

>
> The third, female, grew up in Cambridge, Mass. in the mid-1950s.
>
> Joel
>
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