"put you hep" 1903 (antedating?)

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
> Whether this is an antedating (it's earlier than OED), I'm not sure.

Because no one else has deigned to comment, I take it upon myself to
declare this an authentic antedating, based upon the broad scope of my
personal experience in putting people hep to the jive.

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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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