viznew wrote:Early examples of current usage include[....]
I saw this post and said "WTF?" and then realized, "Oh, whatever!"
viznew wrote:Early examples of current usage include[....]
MLKing wrote:If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.
so this really crossed the line of all the posts because i dont even understand this but this is talking about whatever so yeahviznew wrote:Early examples of current usage include a 1965 episode of Bewitched in which the character Endora exclaims "Alright, whatever" to her daughter, lead character Samantha Stevens, and also the much maligned 1965 sitcom My Mother the Car, in which "whatever" was the standard retort used by Captain Manzini (Avery Schreiber) whenever he would mispronounce "Crabtree" (Jerry Van Dyke), the car's owner (son).
an earlier example of the useage of whatever 1964whatever will be will be
i will continue the hunt but word history on this one vauge
and suddenly i find this
And from William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885):
She's embroidering, or knitting, or tatting, or something of that kind; and he says she seems quite devoted to needlework, and she says, yes, she has a perfect passion for it, and everyone laughs at her for it; but she can't help it, she always was so from a child, and supposes she always shall be,—with remote and minute particulars. And she ends by saying that perhaps he does not like people to tat, or knit, or embroider, or whatever. And he says, oh, yes, he does; what could make her think such a thing?
i suspect earier example exsist and i shall find them if thay do
to end my search which was the first few results from google when i typed(histroy of the word whatever) lol i found this its boring deep read but it's there ill search more earier examples but i prob took this too far so prob wont post -vanishes-
Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776. There are actually multiple incidents in which "whatever" is written.
MagicManICT wrote:That was a moosed opportunity there. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
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