Books on diner vocabulary?

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Fri Dec 14 15:03:39 UTC 2007


On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:00:49AM -0500, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> I have perused the archives, and notice just the following:
>
> American diner: then and now [Richard Gutman, 2000, I assume].
>
> Are there others?

Jack Smiley's _Hash House Lingo,_ 1941, if you can get your
hands on a copy.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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