[Ads-l] Codswallop antedated (?) 1958 (previously cited, 1959)

[Stephen Goranson]

Thursday July 10, 1958, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, p. 77 col. 1 [Am. Hist. Newsp.]

IT'S KIPPER NO MORE
Maurice Arthur Fish, a Bournemouth, England, butcher, has changed his name to Carrington-Fisher.
Said his wife, "We've been called Fishy, Kipper and Codswallop. For our daughter Sandra's sake we hoped to put a stop to it." Sandra already is being called "Little Sprat."

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


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