Derivation of the word oaktag

[Peter Farruggio]

This was the common term for that posterboard material in the NYC schools
throughout my student career in the 1950s.  In fact I never knew of any
other name for it until I had non-native New Yorkers as teachers, sometime
in high school.


At 05:06 PM 12/19/02, you wrote:

>On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>
> > #He notes that in a previous issue (57.3 for fall 1982, p 189), David
> > Gold had #suggested that "oaktag" is a New York City (and Newark, New
> > Jersey) word. But #FWIW, it's not in the Dictionary of American Regional
> > English.
> >
> > I knew the word growing up in NYC in the 50s-60s. I'm pretty sure I
>
>I also knew the word growing up on Long Island in the 1960s.  The earliest
>on New York Times Historical is:
>
>1965 _N.Y. Times_ 26 June 15 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  The youths
>followed the shirt-sleeved candidate down Seventh Avenue, displaying
>oaktag placards that read: "Lindsay -- a traitor to the G.O.P."
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
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