"wake goose"--(a) as the source or "waygoose" (b) apparent antedating

[Stephen Goranson]

Previously, in two posts, I suggested that waygoose came from wake goose. For the argument and examples see [1], both posts combined.

Here's a case of an 1801 document with wake goose that an editor "corrected." [2]

Anatoly Liberman discussed waygoose twice, before my suggestion. [3, 4]

Here are several uses of wake goose from documents going back to the 1550s. [5]

Stephen Goranson
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[1] http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1211A&L=ADS-L&P=R1685&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=-FwRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA134&dq=%22wake+goose%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ex02UePuKZLa8wSw44DoAg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22wake%20goose%22&f=false

[3] http://blog.oup.com/2006/07/bimonthly_glean/

[4] http://blog.oup.com/2009/12/wayzgoose/

[5] http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?id=uc1.31378007653192;view=1up;seq=13;q1=%22wake%20goose%22;start=1;size=10;page=search;orient=0

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