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From: jao@valid.UUCP (John Oswalt)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Need onomatopoei citations
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 14:24:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 18 14:24:49 1986
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I am posting the following as a service to my father, Robert L. Oswalt,
who has no access to the net.  Please mail replies to me; I will see
to it that he gets them.

John Oswalt (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!jao)

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I am doing research on the origin of "oi" in English onomatopoei.  I
would like citations with dates as close as can be estimated together
with an example of the sound to which it is applied.

Example:
	BOING -- Sound of bouncing on a pogo stick.
		 June 1968.
		 Comic Strip.


I need citations for "boing", "doing", "toing", "boink", "doink",
and "toink" over 10 years old.  For "oink" (sound of a pig) over
70 years old.  Others any age.

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John Oswalt (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!jao)