[ExI] You know what?

[Vladimir Nesov]

On Jan 23, 2008 8:03 AM, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
> Has anyone besides me noticed a big increase over the last
> several years of the phrase "you know what?"   I hear it
> everywhere now.  Someone speaking will even interrupt
> himself or herself just to get it in.
>
> I do know that the phrase has been in existence in English
> as long as I've been alive, and I do remember hearing it as
> a child in the 1950s. But it seems to me that about a year
> or so ago it swung into major prominence.  You hear it
> everywhere:  on TV, on radio---everywhere it seems, where
> people converse informally.

Indeed about a year ago there was a resurge!

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22you+know+what%22&ctab=0


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Vladimir Nesov                            mailto:robotact at gmail.com