In dis spot, if in no other, I am "his dibs". And here I'd been thinking you were his nibs! ;-)

wofa, I got out my copy of "Dibs"; nowhere does it say where the name Dibs came from. In the story, both his mother and his teachers were calling him that before Ms. Axline met him. But there is so much emphasis on protecting the clients' privacy that I suspect she gave him the name. This was the first printing, 1968: the book cost seventy-five cents!