"If that don't get my goat"--and a new blog post

[Stephen Goranson]

Here's a link to an extensive and illustrated blog post (Oct. 9, 2014), "Getting Goats, Losing Goats, Stable Goats and Navy Goats - a History and Etymology of "Get My Goat" at Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog:

http://esnpc.blogspot.com/2014/10/getting-goats-losing-goats-stable-goats.html


As far as I know, my Collier's Oct. 28 1905 find is the earliest reported use so far. My "1904" example is really much later; I somehow lazily relied on Google Books for that date.


Stephen Goranson

http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/



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