ABSTRACT
Stephen Goranson drew the London Standard item to the author's attention and sent along details of the act that the chimney sweep referred to. The November 27, 1834 London Standard story about the chimney sweep's legal travails was soon reprinted in at least eight other newspapers throughout England. Prior to the story, kibosh was just one of numerous slang terms in the Cockney community, and a very recent one at that. The Cockney chimney sweep with his delightfully colorful language and the journalist who wrote up his human interest story were the agents of the term's becoming widely recognized in England. The next step was its acceptance into political discourse, beyond the confines of Cockney speech, with the first two examples appearing in an anti-Whig context. This chapter lists the eight British newspapers which reprinted the London Standard story about the chimney sweep.
