He's back!

[George Thompson]

Many of us will remember the learned Prof. Daniel Cassidy, who a
couple of years ago frequently would post a message here stating an
Irish etymology for some 19th C slang word.  When these statements
were received as if they were hypotheses to be examined he became
obstropulous and eventually he left us.

>From the Fall program at the Glucksman Ireland House, NYU, Fifth
Avenue at Washington Mews:
October 19, Thursday, 7 pm  Daniel Cassidy: The Secret Language of the
Crossroad: How the Irish Invented Slang
Linguists generally hold that relatively few Irish words have been
absorbed into standard English. Daniel Cassidy, founder and co-
director of New College’s Irish Studies Program in San Francisco
argues otherwise based on his research for a new book entitled The
Secret Language of the Crossroad: How the Irish Invented Slang which
will be published in early 2007. Cassidy will make the case that Irish
words and phrases are scattered all across American language, regional
and class dialects, colloquialism, slang, and specialized jargons like
gambling.

I do not as yet find this book in Global BIP.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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