Date:    Thu, 30 Apr 1998 13:31:24 -0400
<br>From:    Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: Hello (1848!?)
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<br>Here are some more early citations for _hello_.  The first of these
<br>supports Barry Popik's linking of the word with Bowery slang.
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<br>1849 George G. Foster _New York in Slices ... being the original slices
<br>published in the N.Y. Tribune_ 120  THE BOWERY. ... "Hello, Bill Swipes!
<br>You up in the second tier!
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<br>1852 _Southern Quarterly Review_ V. 332  Miss Caroline or Martha, being
<br>indisputably ... corporeally weaker than Sambo, would be thrust into the
<br>mud.  "Hello da!  Miss Caroline git two teet knock out, and Miss Marta hab
<br>a black eye and bloody nose!"
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<br>1853 _Southern Literary Messenger_ XIX. 218  Hello, Dick, ain't they
<br>nearly all opened?
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