senior slump

[Victoria Neufeldt]

In at least one high school in Springfield, Mass, it's called 'senioritis'.
(I just heard this and am assuming the spelling.)

Victoria
Merriam-Webster, Inc. P.O. Box 281
Springfield, MA 01102
Tel: 413-734-3134  ext 124
Fax: 413-827-7262

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 5:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: sophomore CD, etc.
>
> Similar to "sophomore slump":
>  - "freshman forty": weight gained from campus food & student lifestyle
>  - "senior slump": laxity and casual truancy toward the end of
> the last year of
> high school, especially in the (as it were) lame duck period
> between finals and
> graduation
>
> Nothing for juniors?
>
> -- Mark (who really should be doing his regular work as...
>    Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist and Manager of Acoustic Data
>          Mark_Mandel at dragonsys.com : Dragon Systems, Inc.
>  320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02460, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com
>