vaca

[Scot LaFaive]

I have heard this before but only once or twice. I don't know of anyone who
actually says it nowdays though, and I'm certainly not hip enough to use it
myself.

Scot LaFaive


>From: Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: vaca
>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:27:36 -0400
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>Poster:       Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
>Subject:      vaca
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>Last night on The Daily Show, Claire Danes remarked that she had been
>enjoying a "vaca" [veke] in Hawaii.  I had never heard that clipping, and
>it's not recorded in UrbanDictionary.com.  Among lots of Spanish cows,
>Google yields a limited humber of tokens (search the phrase "vaca in
>Hawaii" (or some other popular destination).
>
>--Charlie
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