"Guys and Dolls"

[neil]

on 29/5/05 3:09 pm, Fred Shapiro at fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU wrote:

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> I am including book titles in my quotation dictionary when they have
> "entered the language."  I am trying to decide whether to include Damon
> Runyon's title "Guys and Dolls."  The OED cites this as one of their
> quotations under "guy," but that may or may not mean much.  Does anyone
> have a sense of how linguistically or phraseologically influential
> Runyon's title was?
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> Fred Shapiro
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> Fred R. Shapiro                             Editor


In the 1960s/70s, UK DJ Jimmy Saville addressed his teenage audience as
"guys and gals" -- possibly influenced by Guys and Dolls".

--Neil Crawford