Date:    Fri, 8 May 1998 02:17:11 EDT
<br>From:    Bapopik <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>Subject: "Ello" (1848)
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<br>     Edward Z. C. Judson (1822-1886; he used the pseudonym "Ned Buntline") was
<br>one of America's greatest slang writers.
<br>     Buntline's 1848 book THE MYSTERIES AND MISERIES OF NEW YORK:  A STORY OF
<br>REAL LIFE is a slang masterpiece.  There is a glossary of "flash terms" and
<br>"slang language" that's used by the RHHDAS--although that work doesn't include
<br>many words.  For example, the first RHHDAS entry for "g'hal" is "1850 (Judson)
<br>_G'hals of New York_ (title)," but "g'hal" is in MYSTERIES on page 111.
<br>      I found "hello" in NYC in 1848, so I decided to go through Buntline's
<br>MYSTERIES as well.  Page 13 has "Hallo, old gal..."
<br>      This is from page 37:
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<br>       "'Ello, Charley, my kid! tip us your mawley, vot is'nt new to-night?'
<br>cried old Jack, reaching out his mawley or hand to the new comer."
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<br>       In fact, this exact citation is on page 524 ("mauley") of the RHHDAS H-
<br>O!
<br>       "Ello" is elsewhere in MYSTERIES.  It's not "hello," but, as the
<br>British say,  'allo!  Who doesn't drop an "h"?
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