[Ads-l] Yosemite Sam and "tarnation"
Dan Goncharoff
thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Sun Sep 8 22:08:06 UTC 2024
I would have expected a Walter Brennan character rather than a cartoon
parody of a Walter Brennan character.
On Sun, Sep 8, 2024, 4:05 PM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
> An exploration of _tarnation_, including the (apparently false) belief
> that it is in fact a characteristic exclamation of Yosemite Sam:
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> https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-in-tarnation-is-tarnation
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> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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