college slang of the '20s

[Jonathan Lighter]

Coincidence ?  Or something...far more...absurd ?

  JL


Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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At 6:38 PM -0800 1/25/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Am given to understand that the following college papers contain
>articles on student slang of the '20s. For those who may have
>access.
>
> _Ohio State Lantern_ (March 27, 1922)
>
> _UCLA Daily_ (Sept. 29, 1925)
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> _UCLA Daily_ (March 29, 1926)
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> _UCLA Daily_ (November 29, 1927)
>
Wow. The UCLA Daily so long ago it wasn't even Bruin yet. Seems
like appropriate institutions for this, given the collections in
OSU's _Language Files_ and especially Pam Munro's published
collections of _UCLA Slang_ half a century later.

Larry

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