Jon Lighter on ADS-L yesterday, offering “An early “is is”: 1964 Jere Peacock To Drill and Die  (N.Y.: Bantam) 257: [(1)] “The thing of it is,” Waldron said … “is that this order was set up for you personally.” The earliest example of Isis on record up to this point is from Dwight Bolinger in … Continue reading An early “is is”? Probably not.