#'stop trying to make pyhyhy happen martin it's not going to happen!'
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ok post cancelled i found the source
from 'Hay Any Worke for Cooper' written by Martin Marprelate (pseud.) published in March 1589 (google books says 1641 but that's wrong)
from wikipedia: "the Marprelate Controversy was a war of pamphlets waged in England and Wales in 1588 and 1589, between a puritan writer who employed the pseudonym Martin Marprelate, and defenders of the Church of England....
...Martin's tracts are characterised by mockery of Anglican dignitaries and satire against the corruptions of the Church of England. The style is 'a heady mixture of nonsense, satire, protest, irony and gossip', combined with pungent wit, 'full of the language of the street'....
...It now appeared to some of the ecclesiastical authorities that the only way to silence Martin was to have him attacked in his own railing style, and accordingly certain writers of ready wit, among them John Lyly, Thomas Nashe and Robert Greene, were secretly commissioned to answer the pamphlets."
so actually it's more like
a puritan, in 1589: pyhyhyhy XD fuck bishops
john lyly, probably: please that is so early 1580s #CofEforever
someone in the 1590s: pyhyhyhyhyhy XD
shakespeare, probably: please that is so 1580s lol
#ok rabbit hole over sorry#there aren't any other entries on ngram#the ones in the 1800s are just quoting martin#i just love the idea of this one group of puritans trying to get pyhyhyhy to catch on#'stop trying to make pyhyhy happen martin it's not going to happen!'#(also interesting to note that two of the proposed authors of the pamphlets were welsh)#(although the welsh language was beginning to be restricted at the time after the act of union in 1536)#(so perhaps the pronunciation is different than how it reads in english)#(so it wouldn't sound like pie high high)#(any welsh speaker lmk how you would pronounce it bc i think it varies? on where the y is in the word and also regionally?)#which funnily enough is why i was looking up hahaha in the etymology dictionary in the first place#because i love seeing how different languages write hahaha
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