gitmo

[Barnhart]

But it is in the new American Oxford.

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com

American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Sunday, May 29, 2005
at 3:40 PM -0500 wrote:
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>Gitmo -- not in OED -- HDAS has 1959 -- (Navy) slang for Guantanamo Bay
>
>"Home on Leave" Indiana, PA _Indiana Evening Gazette_ 1949-08-26, p. 8 =
>col 3.
>"Before coming home, Midshipman Balint went on a summer cruise for seven =
>and one-half weeks with a
>week's stopover in England and several weeks in Gitmo, Cuba."