Slang Jang (1901)

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:49 PM -0400 10/18/06, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>"Slang Jang" appears to be from Texas. I'm seeing it in many cookbooks. Ben
>Zimmer reported on it here, but it appears one week earlier in
>Newspaperarchive.
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>(ADS-L POST BY BEN ZIMMER)
>_http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0509A&L=ADS-L&P=R13510&I=-3
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>(http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0509A&L=ADS-L&P=R13510&I=-3)
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>_http://www.americandialect.org/NADS35-1.pdf_
>(http://www.americandialect.org/NADS35-1.pdf)
>slang-jang  -- a dish containing oysters, onions, pickles, peppers, etc.

I especially like that "etc.", which I seem to have missed the first
couple of times around.  So I assume this is a natural class that can
be extended to, say, clams, celery, crawfish, and such?

LH

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