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Sender: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:53:36 -0800
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Subject: Re: Mark Twain and "dude"
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From: Gregg Camfield <[log in to unmask]>
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The claim doesn't hold up.  My _Historical Dictionary of American Slang_
(J.E. Lighter, ed), lists ten published uses before it cites Twain's
_Yankee_.

Gregg

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