Props

[Margaret Lee]

In her 1967 hit,"R-E-S-P-E-C-T," Aretha Franklin says, "All I want
you to do for me is give me my propers when you get home."
The hip-hop generation shortened it to props.

Margaret

--- Paul McFedries <lists at MCFEDRIES.COM> wrote:
> Where did the word props (proper respect) originate? Was is
> originally West
> Coast surfer slang (see Bill & Ted's Bogus Adventure)? Or did the
> dudes
> appropriate it from AAVE?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul


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Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - English and Linguistics
 & University Editor
Department of English
Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668
(757)727-5769(voice);(757)727-5421(fax);(757)851-5773(home)
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