Talk:who would have thunk it
Language is a living thing! Who'd have thunk it. That is, that the odd sounding, even ugly word "thunk" would be adopted into fairly standard usage. Methinks I hear my labra-doodle barking. Gotta go.
74.101.168.145 16:44, 10 May 2013 (UTC) montdor1@gmail.com
Origins[edit]
Although the citations attest that the phrase predates him, according to Snarky Grammar Guide, "The phrase Who'd a thunk it? was coined way back in the 1930s and '40s by Mortimer Snerd, a ventriloquist dummy voiced by vaudeville star Edgar Bergen. Mortimer was a likeable character, but buck-toothed, slow-witted, and famous for saying, "Duhhh." You can connect the dots." So, even if Bergen did not originate the phrase, he certainly helped popularise it. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 01:03, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
Who'da thunk it --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:39, 18 September 2019 (UTC)