Natural Experiment in the Diffusion of Slang

[Jonathan Lighter]

On tonight's episode of "Joan of Arcadia," CBS's theologically oriented drama of teen angst, one patch of dialogue included the statement,

            "He's the scuzzcrack that fired you from the yearbook."

A few minutes later,

            "He fired you from the yearbook because he's a scuzzcrack."

A quick check of the Web and the Usenet groups at 9:00 p.m. EDT revealed not a single occurrence of the evidently neologistic "scuz(z)crack" or "scuz(z)(-)crack

It will be interesting to see if it begins to show up in the future.

JL


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