nyaa nyaa/ naa naa

[Paul Johnston]

Come to think of it, "ollie ollie in free" was used in Morristown, NJ in the '60s.


On Feb 14, 2012, at 8:17 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> On Feb 14, 2012, at 8:09 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>> At 2/14/2012 12:22 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>> My personal recollection of text and pronunciation is "ollie ollie in
>>> free"
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>> I have asked two friends for their recollections.  The three of us
>> all recall the phrase and pronunciation as above.
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>> One, a woman now in her eighties, grew up in Connecticut and the
>> Worcester, Mass. area.
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>> The second, male, was a lad in NYC in the mid-940s.
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> Aha!  I'm not alone, then.  (Well, I was a lad in NYC 5-10 years after that.  Give or take a millennium.)
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> LH
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>> The third, female, grew up in Cambridge, Mass. in the mid-1950s.
>>
>> Joel
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