"crimenentles," anyone?

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Sat Jan 7 23:24:04 UTC 2006


When I was young[er] I sometimes heard (my spelling, but probably from some
printed instance) "criminently" /kraim at nEntli/  in Detroit. I take this to
be an elaboration of "criminy". Quick glance at N'archive shows this
exclamation (spelled "crima-", "crime-", "crimi-") back to 1941.

-- Doug



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