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The Simpsons’ Mr. Burns often answers the phone with an archaic-seeming “ahoy-hoy.” What other idioms or expressions from 1800-1900 might have fallen out of favor in the english-speaking world?

by /u/memostothefuture in /r/AskHistorians

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