Dave Bircumshaw and Robin hamilton will surely tell us all right back to the
caves and ice ages maybe it means watch out here comes a hungry sabre tooth
tiger
P the etc of poetry etc
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Max Richards
Sent: 14 July 2012 07:18
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Subject: Re: YIKES!!! the word
I noticed this subject heading just after my wife used it in an SMS, saying
to me Great word, yikes.
Then she said she thought it was Australian.
Yes, no doubt, I said, but before that American and maybe also British.
All we can find online so far is this:
yikes
exclamation of alarm or surprise, by 1953; perhaps from yoicks, a call in
fox-hunting, attested from c.1770. Yike "a fight" is slang attested from
1940, of uncertain connection.
Not very helpful.
Whose slang first?
Maybe one of those American words spread via comic books to everywhere in
the English-speaking world.
Might it have a Yiddish origin?
Max without dictionaries just now.
On 13/07/2012, at 1:54 AM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:37 AM, chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> On 12/07/12 00:51, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
>>
>>> I used to use Lyx, but for a long time I've used wiki-like text,
>>> which is even simpler than HTML
>>>
>>
>>
>> thanks for the tip.
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