DC-area "joning"

[Wilson Gray]

Very interesting! I was thinking that "burn" was just something that
the show's writers had made up.

-Wilson

On 7/23/07, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Jim Parish
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