meh! (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jul 6, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>
> I think of "meh" as much older than the cites below.  I wouldn't be
> surprised to find it in Mad Magazine (or even the comics version) from
> the Harvey Kurtzman days.

the links i gave were to references *about* _meh_, not to uses of it.  from Ben Zimmer's most recent LLog posting:

  I spent a fair bit of time skimming through early issues of Mad in a digital archive and found only the stronger interjection feh rather than meh, mneh, or mnyeh.

arnold

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