Books on diner vocabulary?

[Laurence Horn]

>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.
>
There claims to be a copy in the Yale library (in its long term
shelving facility).  I like the publication data:

Author:  Smiley, Jack.
Title:  Hash house lingo, by Jack Smiley.
Published:  Easton, Pa. : The author, 1941.
Description: 59 p. 19 cm.

LH

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