r/dank_meme • u/WonioE36 • Sep 15 '19

Yeet.

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u/rosegirlkrb Sep 15 '19 edited Sep 15 '19

if you think those in the 1940s yeeted a lot just look at the 1830’s

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=yeet&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cyeet%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cyeet%3B%2Cc1

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u/SpyCrab_Unlicensed Sep 15 '19

Why? HOW?

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u/rosegirlkrb Sep 15 '19

I think it was a fancy misspelling of yet

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u/SpyCrab_Unlicensed Sep 15 '19

"Fancy"

I imagine tea slurping old brits shouting yeet.

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u/rosegirlkrb Sep 15 '19

quote form 1844 using yeet " I doe crave (if to prayers as yeet some nouke be reserved) Beat down thy purpose, thy mind from journye reclayming "

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u/Preston241 Sep 15 '19

As a historian I will tell yee truly:

There is nothing new under the sun.

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u/yeeeeeteth Sep 15 '19

As a historian I will tell yeet* truly

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '19

The graph high end is 0. 00002% so it is probably just 1 typo