Show IF A al a dm a gm am aa ah af a ar W aft ilse 1 F IN U W Is a 04 fa G ap on ed asu a 0 MY WORD WE JAY UP SLIP MEYER TALKED THAT ME AN IRON VVE GOT WAY III THE DAY FAT CHAN VE TO A OF THE GOOD TO DRAG my FRILL WITH 15 tio GO queen WHAT SHINDIG WEDE YOU TO GET PICKLED fa f 3 X 4 drawing by ray wa tem by ELMO SCOTT WATSON are the slang words of yesterday gone most of them back into the vacuity from which they come came and then into oblivion sonia some of 0 client may survive for a few weeks or it u few months before they disappear A still smaller number will persist tor for a year or acne then lind find their way into new editions of our dictionaries hut but they will be labeled thus stan glnn or colloq for the kings english Is us conservative as the english king referred to in that designation of our language and no upstart word need apply for admission unless it can show some gome kind of ancestry 0 to o justify its breaking into word society eventually of course it may appear in dictions blue look book without tile stigma of slang or colloq attached to lt it but the period of probation Is I 1 usually a long ion one and thus thua are new words born who remembers the favorite slang words or expressions of ten years ago or live years ago aeo or even a icar ago how bow long has it been since you told tod a friend to 0 o or exclaimed oh oft you kid or declared that your plans has gooe gone or tor for that matter how bow recently have you retorted sos your old man mail to say that thai fashions in slang change as rapidly i us fashions in won lens dress is au an inadequate statement of the speed wit with lh which we americans add n dd to the bright lexicon of youth and then discard the new extravaganza as born out slid and trite that applies of course majority of tile current slang phrases they ore are the ones v illch car offer no etymological anc ancestry stry to justify their existence cut but for buell a word as cootie which the lexicographer labels BrI tIbb soldiers slang and which can call polut point back to the ancient sanskrit planning body or to 10 the urdu an obscure eastern di diar leer khu libut hl meaning sanh there Is it 11 good chance that it will become tin IID word in good and regular the same Is fis true of hootch n word of alaskan origin which came from a spirituous drink milade by the indians of that territory ord savvy which lie lias a double duces puces try the french baor faire meaning ability or bli and the hie spanish sabe meaning inclining understand why do we use glan tf anyway 1 luiere I asere are at least three good reasons according to one scholar who has he a special study of the subject the first Is fur for relief from monotony anil dil no matter linw how lucking lacking in real meaning inclining tile the slang word or phrase la Is it offers a welcome change from the tale stale customary words of our everyday speech the second mo tle tiie Is ig usually humorous j ufa intent and bits of slang f which contain sonie some element of liu in mor have more chance to persist than llian others an example la Is the word ichi lI IWer ver which was coined less than fifteen years ago but which seems to persist and to be gaining general acceptance cep tance as a word in common usage which leads to good usage and to eventual incorporation in the language langu agn because it is intrinsically tin no amusing word the die third motive for use of slang according to this fi cholar is to avoid clumsy words and a short onesi liable word even though it is blan slangy gy becomes bec onies a recognized synonym tor for a longer two or three syllable word to many persons it Is easier to say benu bone one or plunk than to say Id dollar adrillar and to refer to a crazy person as a nut rather than as a lunatic but slang at its best Is exemplified in the coining of a new word or jor the adaptation of an all old one to utter a striking picturesque characterization I 1 and the slang word often provides the exact shade of meaning which the more proper word would utterly fall to do A i 1 loneer loncer expression for an inefficient wid and useless peron was hes a fellow modern slang has bag improved upon that could there be any more apt alit and to the tlc alc point characterization of an ineffectual individual than to borrow two words from the realta realm of 0 motor dont and say that lie I 1 Is 3 a flat tire that about the ultimate mate in expressing the acute acme of use it Is traditional that american ain should be troublesome to englinde Eng lind the home of the mother tongue und and with fill the increasing interchange of american ind find english literature ant and drama the english ang fish have become mort more anil and wore more concerned c licer ned about it an amerlean american play in london has been a fall fail ure because there was so inauen american in it and in issuing iss uinI some of our novels avels english ers have found it necessary essaiy to a glossary of american 1 phrases so flint Eil english glish readers cull cal understand them tills this lio weier leads to some amusing blunders na aj witness tile hie explanations glen in ia the he english edition of sinclair lewis babbitt here the english reader is that beck lit in by hecim Is s tile the familiar for lle Ile ruba cuba a new england deity a go getter la Is one who pursues business or informal on a hoodlum Is a crunk crank a once over li is a trial and a fretti matl hop Is a college e dancing club r hut but the english are valiantly trying to understand us an english society the IS S P E U society for preservation of english or society for purity of perhaps has secured the services of anAni an american erlean professor ta t help them get gerlipp lipp to our lingo prof fred newton scott of tile the university of Mich michigan igau an sut authority hority on rhetoric has compiled a dictionary ot american anier ann cnn slang phrases which has been published as IS S P E tract no 1 to aid english readers who are struggling with american novels here are the first 33 of the expressions there are approximately more but these will give us some idea of the sort of which lias bas our british cousins puzzled all in exhausted applesauce noun or interjection one of the latest pieces of slang la this country it has two quit qui lang to distinct to meanings 1 nonsense and 1 3 flattery it to la commonly used an a a term tenn of jocular contempt in reply to effusive but unjustifiable flattery from baby talk for or that s a boyr boy elnel bravo balled up stalled confused cont used and 10 00 unable to go eo on bat spree good time bat round have a good time go fron from place to place in quest of pleas ure bawl out to rebuke sharply scold violently trans transitive etive verb bean head bead bean to hit on the head rest beat it go BO get outi beat the living tar out of 0 give good drubbing to relieve ms me sometimes ome tints eP expanded tc believe you me ts take ke my word for it bellhop J d page in a hotel the berries just right bla blah blunder foolish balic blab mouth indiscreetly loquacious peron blo blowhard w hard boaster not unknown rl blow w in spend slow blow to a dinner give a dinner to ail blurb b a tul noun Is a term applied tc any y publish publishers ees announcement espe dally to passages of fulsome fula oine laudation on the in jackets crets of newly published d buk books the word Is now used broadly bro adly to cover tile brief summaries analyses and appreciations usually in smaller lype that often precede magazine stories and admirable word indispensable ho catrin ruin hobo friend pal done bone dollar bonehead Bone bead stupid person boob dunce one easily misled boost to rr promote to push to laud 13 booster ooster promoter one who smuggles strong drink now well known booze drunks rd booze hoisting drinking liquor bring brans home homa the bacon accuse ra r suits duck buck oppose buck dollar doliar BuIld bulldoze ozo to compel by a show a ol 01 force to bully |