Re: anymore (was: Re: the surprise that is at me...)

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>And another:  currently popular is "same-old, same-old".  Wm. Safire has
>written about this, but hasn't traced it back.  In the 50's, in the Army,
>the
>older guys who had been stationed in Japan during the Occupation and
>Korean
>War, used to say "same-o, same-o".  This arose from their belief that you
>could turn English words into Japanese by adding -o! ("Hey, mama-san, you
>want present-o?").  So maybe those who say "same-old" are vaguely
>remembering
> something from their fathers' speech? (at the same time avoiding the
>offensive underlying racism).
Hmm, i thought it came from "same old show", but just repeated the "same
old" for emphasis.


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