DC-area "joning"
Jim Parish
jparish at SIUE.EDU
Mon Jul 23 14:05:43 UTC 2007
Wilson Gray wrote:
> Thanks for the info, Ben. Good catch! BTW, if anybody else watches the
> re-runs of That '70's Show, what's called a "burn" on that sitcom
> corresponds quite closely to what is / was called a "jone" in Saint
> Louis and, presumably, in DC.
"Burn", both verb and noun, was common usage in my Scout troop in
San Diego in the early '70s.
Jim Parish
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