Jimmies in NY?

[Dave Wilton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Fred Shapiro
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 8:07 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Jimmies in NY?
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Ed Keer wrote:
>
> > How sure are we that the term 'jimmies' is not used in
> > NY? I just checked with my wife, a native of North
> > Jersey with parents from Brooklyn. She said she always
> > called them 'chocolate jimmies' and her parents did
> > too.
>
> I grew up on Long Island in the 1960s and never heard the term "jimmies"
> until I went to college in Boston.

Growing up on the Jersey Shore (born 1963), "jimmies" was a familiar term
although "sprinkles" was far more common.


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