whole jingbang antedated to 1838

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
> Blackwood's Magazine, May, 1838 p. 619 col. 2 "Father Tom and the Pope; or a Night at the Vatican." (GB)
> Howandiver, when all's done, it's a shame, so it is, that he's not a bishop this blessed day and hour: for, next to the goiant _ov_ Saint Garlath's, he's out and out the cleverest fellow _ov_ the whole jing-bang.

*Still* the preferred pronunciation amongst the colored of my
congeries, at least, to the extent that I once challenged the claim by
a phonetics prof UC Davis that [^v] was standard.

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