[Ads-l] Antedating of "Wassup"

[Shapiro, Fred]

wassup (OED 1902)

1868 Evening Post (Chicago) 23 Oct. 2/8 (Newspapers.com)  Wha's'a-matter?  Whassup?

1898 Bayonne Herald 1 Jan. 3/2 (Newspapers.com)  He was assisted to his uprights by one or two passing pedestrians, when he asked, "wassup?"

Fred Shapiro



------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org