Sa-ay

I fully expect American TV production companies will eventually see this program, rub their collective chins, and murmur, “Sa-ay….”

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Beginning with the Bowery interrogative "Sa-ay," and ending with a reference to the "land of the free and the home of the brave," which the late ELIJAH POGRAM, or the present NATHANIEL BANKS might have written, it is simply the weakest of rhymed buncombe wedded to the cheapest of pinchbeck music.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 Various

"Sa-ay!" he called with the asperity of ingrained ennui -- "either of youse guys know a guy named Perceval Sybarite 't lives here?"

The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

"Sa-ay, if that there's Skyrider sailin 'around in an airship, he's shore got the laugh on us fellers," Aleck observed, squinting his nose until his gums showed red above his teeth.

Skyrider B. M. Bower 1905

But as soon as the keeper saw that the man in the water was amusing his prisoner, he leaned over the ship's side and shouted, "Sa-ay, you, don't you know there's sharks in there?"

The Lion and the Unicorn 1899

If it wasn't for hearing you talk every day I'd be talking like the rest of the chorus at the Egyptian Garden; -- 'Sa-ay, ain't you done with my make-up box?

Athalie Frank Craig 1899

"Sa-ay you go'n 'take me at those pink-face people?"

Purple-Eyes 1898

"Sa-ay tha ''s not nize for us," accused the dark one, with valor.

Purple-Eyes 1898

"Sa-ay you lig me also dance jus 'one liddle dance for you?"

Purple-Eyes 1898

But as soon as the keeper saw that the man in the water was amusing his prisoner, he leaned over the ship's side and shouted, "Sa-ay, you, don't you know there's skarks in there?"

The Exiles and Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890