Natural Experiment in the Diffusion of Slang

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Sat Oct 23 01:32:22 UTC 2004


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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