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#52179 01/08/02 04:04 PM
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What is the origin of "You betcha"?


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What is the origin of "You betcha"?


My guess would be that it is a shortening of "you betcher ___________(fill in the blank, life, bippie, whatever)" which would be a careless pronunciation of "you bet your ___________"


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Dear Faldage,

That explanation would have never occurred to me.

What about Gotcha! then? Does that follow suit? No, I suppose it doesn't. It's just a simple, "Got you!"

I wonder what "Stotcha!" might mean?

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Does Gotcha! follow suit? No, I suppose it doesn't.

I suppose you suppose correctly.

"Stotcha!" is what the cheetah says to the gemsbok.


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Cute, Faldage, very cute.

Or to that tiny antelope, the dikdik, but I don't know whether the dikdik stots or not.

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The Archie & Mehitabel books Hymie Verick! were made into a musical, which has a song where the two lead characters call themselves Flotsam and Jetsam on the sea of life -- anbd use the like construction:

Flotsam! If you want flotsam we gottsom!
Jetsam! If we don't gotsom we'll gettsom!



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Always wondered what a bippie was - as in "you betcha sweet bippie". Thought I'd seen it spelt "bippee"??

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Always wondered what a bippie was - as in "you betcha sweet bippie". Thought I'd seen it spelt "bippee"??

I never saw it spelled before, only heard it on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In". But always wondered where my bippie (bippee?) is (was?). I'm sooooooo confused!


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I personally have always been of the opinion that "bippie" ought to be a plural noun.


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according to one online source, "bippy" is prison slang for a small paper cone of cleaning powder used for scouring cells. but one wonders if this lends itself to "you bet your sweet bippy" and the like.


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