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Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 history edited CommunityBot
Commonmark migration
Aug 2, 2016 at 4:35 comment added William As a child, I was told not to call people outside of their name by my grandparents. The tone was always 'proper', as if they were highfalutin. Thats why im surprised this is considered slang or jargon.
Dec 21, 2015 at 14:19 history bounty ended Kit Z. Fox
Dec 20, 2015 at 1:59 history edited Sven Yargs CC BY-SA 3.0
Added a fourth (and much more recent) modern occurrence of the phrase.
Dec 20, 2015 at 1:26 history edited Sven Yargs CC BY-SA 3.0
Fixed another typo: yhe --> the.
Dec 19, 2015 at 23:02 history edited Sven Yargs CC BY-SA 3.0
added 3 characters in body
Dec 19, 2015 at 22:50 history edited Sven Yargs CC BY-SA 3.0
Minor fixes to the final paragraph.
Dec 19, 2015 at 22:28 vote accept mcgyver5
Dec 19, 2015 at 20:43 history edited Sven Yargs CC BY-SA 3.0
Changed "term" to "phrase" in two subheads.
Dec 19, 2015 at 18:36 history edited Sven Yargs CC BY-SA 3.0
Fixed a proper name misspelling and removed a duplicate word.
Dec 19, 2015 at 11:04 history answered Sven Yargs CC BY-SA 3.0