[Ads-l] Antedating of "Coon Shout"

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coon shout (OED 1895)

1893 Daily Evening Item (Lynn, Mass.) 3 Nov. 1/5 (Newspapers.com)

Edmund Phelan was clever enough and excruciatingly funny in his coon shout, "Mamie Come Kiss Your Honey Boy."

Fred Shapiro

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