the oldest surviving slang

RonButters at AOL.COM RonButters at AOL.COM
Mon Jul 1 21:17:39 UTC 2002


How about DOPE as in "Don't be such a dope."? Surely that is older.

In a message dated 7/1/02 4:16:21 PM, dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU writes:

<< On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:

>I always trot out "cool" as the longest-surviving lexical item that
>has retained its slang categorization.

Works for me.

Bethany >>



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