/ BEG YOUR PARDON.
What is the proper reply to the eTeryday remark, " I beg your pardon"? There seems to be a large number of replies, varying according to the class or status of the replier. A correspondent has kindly assorted and catalogued them as follows :-rTho Very polite:—"My fault, I'm sure." The polite : " Don't mention it." The average : " All right." The genial: "No harm done, Sir." The genteel: " Granted." The plebeian : " Why don't you look out." The lower ten. " Where yer shuvin ?"
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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 272, 9 April 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)
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