• wieson@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Some time ago I looked it up, because I feared the same. There’s actually medieval examples of the full phrase.

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      2 months ago

      There is a good writeup on the English Language stack exchange and on Wikipedia all of whose early sources are for the normal version or things like it https://english.stackexchange.com/a/508940

      If you have a better citation, please share, but since they only find the Tumblr version from the 1990s I’m saying it’s bollocks.