The road from place-name to adjective (was Re: Ghetto)

Gregory {Greg} Downing gd2 at IS2.NYU.EDU
Fri Nov 3 03:58:09 UTC 2000


At 10:35 PM 11/2/2000 -0500, "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:
>probably you'll even see "He's so Staten Island" somewhere ....
>

Not to mention "so Brooklyn," "so Jersey," "so Long Island," "so Philly," etc.

Greg in Staten Island





Greg Downing, at greg.downing at nyu.edu or gd2 at is2.nyu.edu



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