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We all looked at one 'nother, 'n' I thought for a second somebody 'd laugh, but nobody dassed, 'n' there warn'ta sound in the room 's Aunt Beccy sot down agin' without movin' a muscle in her face.
1904, Henry A. Shute, Sequil Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First, page 8:
Gim scrached a line in the dirt and told Will not to dass to step over it and then Will put a chip on his sholeder and told Gim not to dass to nock it off
1907, Lawrence Mott, To the credit of the sea, page 72:
"Ay, an' lost me th' ship, 'cause I'd never dassed take her wi' only twenty barrel o' bait, 'f I'd knowed th' new law. I hain't got much money, Mr. Burberry, an' there's the missils an' kiddies to house an' dress an' feed.
1907, Mabel Osgood Wright, Gray lady and the birds: stories of the bird year for home and school, page 41:
You weren't smart to refuse; you could have had a peep inside the General's house, maybe, and I don't believe she'd dassed said a word about birds on hats, with one of the company wearing 'em!
The acceptability and use of dass and daß has varied over the centuries. Daß was more common until at least 1871. Dass was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference. (In Württemberg, Saxony and Prussia, dass had been deprecated earlier in the 19th century.)[1][2][3]Daß was more common from 1902 until it was deprecated and dass was revived by the 1996 Rechtschreibreform.[4]
References
^ Regeln und Wörterverzeichniß für die deutsche Rechtschreibung, zum Gebrauch in den württembergischen Schulanstalten amtlich festgestellt (Stuttgart, Verlag der J. B. Metzlerschen Buchhandlung, 1861), page 12f.
^ Regeln und Wörterverzeichnis für die deutsche Rechtschreibung zum Gebrauch in den sächsischen Schulen. Im Auftrage des Königl. Ministeriums des Kultus und öffentlichen Unterrichts herausgegeben. (Generalverordnung vom 9. Oktober 1880.) (Dresden, Verlag von Alwin Huhle (Carl Adlers Buchhandlung), 1880), page 8f.
^ Regeln und Wörterverzeichnis für die deutsche Rechtschreibung zum Gebrauch in den preußischen Schulen. Herausgegeben im Auftrage des Königlichen Ministeriums der geistlichen, Unterrichts- und Medizinal-Angelegenheiten (Zweiter Neudruck. Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1883; Zweiter Neudruck. Neu durchgesehen. Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1887), page 8f.
