At 5/2/2007 11:52 PM, Jon L wrote: > I don't think I met one preppy at NYU. But on the other hand, he also wrote: >"Trou" for trousers appears in the West Point yearbook _The >Howitzer_ as early as 1911. So that officer at least was a gentleman. Joel ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org