A new word?

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:05 PM -0400 8/17/06, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>Sorry, in my haste to find out where on Long Island Jesse is from, I sent
>a personal e-mail to the list.  As a Williston Park-er, Jesse, I'm still
>interested in your L.I. provenance...
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
Me too!  Let's hear it from Lung Guyland!  Woo-woo!  (Not that I can
think of any actual LI-isms of the nature of the NYC-isms of my
youth--"saluggi", "wait on line", "sliding pond", etc.)

LH, Long Beach High School '61

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