Skosh

[Duane Campbell]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:42:37 -0400 "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU>
writes:

> PS: I guess I resisted the spelling since it looks like it would
> rhyme with "gosh" (which it don't).

I've read the several replies, and no one mentions what I remember.
Though I haven't heard it in many years, I do remember fairly common
usage in the early to mid 1950s, but I remember it as pronounced skoosh
or skootch, with the vowel of boot.

D

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