new words: gaycism

Susan Burt smburt at ILSTU.EDU
Sat Mar 24 02:28:13 UTC 2007


On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

>>
>
> Wasn't he Gacy, or maybe Gacey?  It was back when all trendy serial
> killers had to have "Wayne" as their middle names.

Who else had "Wayne" as a middle name?  Is that why I have always felt
vaguely uneasy about people named Wayne--or middle-named Wayne?

Susan

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org



More information about the Ads-l mailing list