“What does this expression, ‘Sez you’ mean?” asked the judge. The clerk of the court replied: “My lord, it appears that this a slang expression of American origin which has gained regrettable currency in the language of our people through the insidious agency of the cinema, and is, I am led to understand, employed to indicate a state of dubiety in the mind of the speaker as to the veracity or credibility of a statement made to him.” “Oh, yeah!” said the judge.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 January 1942, Page 3
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