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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 28124, member: 33&quot;]Here is the source they refer to from 1896. A serial publication called <i>Dialect Notes</i>. That source says the use was in Ithaca, New York. Don&#039;t know if it was printed or verbal.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?oe=UTF-8&amp;id=G3QKAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=willies#v=snippet&amp;q=willies&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?oe=UTF-8&amp;id=G3QKAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=willies#v=snippet&amp;q=willies&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?oe=UTF-8&amp;id=G3QKAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=willies#v=snippet&amp;q=willies&amp;f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In looking further through the publication, it appears that this was part of a list compiled at Cornell University in Ithaca, related to words that they have heard people speak.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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