Boojies (was CP Time)

[Grant Barrett]

On Nov 5, 2004, at 09:44, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Grant Barrett wrote:
>> Boojies/boogies/bougies (the latter the more common spelling in my
>> experience) is still used enough that just last week I saw it
>> graffitied across an advertisement on the Brooklyn-bound side of the
>> First or Third Avenue stop of the L train in Manhattan.
> But "boogie" is pronounced the same as the "boogie" in "boogie-woogie"
> and is not class-specific. For example, a white character in the
> groundbreaking 1950 movie, "No Way Out," says something like, "I saw a
> boogie driving a Cadillac a block long!" as the whites of Beaver Canal
> are firing themselves up to riot against the blacks of Niggertown.

You are, of course, absolutely right.

Grant Barrett