Among the New Words, Winter 2011 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> I believe that _ka-ching!_ appears on the blurb page of Beard & Kenney's
> _Bored of the Rings_ (1969), a significant antedating.

The _*cha*-ching_ of BE is, IME, younger that _ka-ching_ in the wild.
But, it seems to me that even "cha-ching" must be around fifteen years
old, by now.

But that;s only my WAG. I'm willing to accept whatever anyone else
cares to say. Go figure.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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