Date:    Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:47:25 EDT
<br>From:    "Barry A. Popik" <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>Subject: Hello; Skel
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<br>HELLO
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<br>     This is from the KNICKERBOCKER magazine, September 1846, pg. 262:
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<br>     "Who's this?--the devil!--hell-o!--what does this mean!" shouted the
<br>officer...
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<br>     Ah!  So perhaps the devil makes us do it, after all.  The August 1846
<br>issue, pg. 185, has the more familiar "Hallo! stranger!"
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<br>SKEL
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<br>     I recall seeing "skel" in one of the Harlem song lyrics of the 1930s, but
<br>I don't remember if I made a note of it or copied it down, and I can't find it
<br>just now.
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