24/7

[Margaret Lee]

24/7 originated in AAE, as found in Smitherman's _Black Talk_ (2000),
p. 288.



--- Barnhart <Barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:
> The term 24-7 is found in the Barnhart Dictionary Companion (Vol.
> 8.4,
> 1993).  It probably needs an updated treatment.
>
> No origin was speculated at the time.  My guess is that it arose in
> the
> slang/jargon of Silicon Valley.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> David K. Barnhart, Editor
> The Barnhart Dictionary Companion [quarterly]
> barnhart at highlands.com
> www.highlands.com/Lexik
>
> "Necessity obliges us to neologize."
> Thomas Jefferson-August 16, 1813


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