boogaloo roots?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 3/27/07, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
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> Here's an early instance ... not very enlightening etymologically though.
>
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> _Lethbridge [Alberta] Herald_, 30 Oct. 1939: p. 4:
>
> [quoted from "Time Magazine": letter from Darien GA]
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> <<I like the explanation of this war given by "Boogaloo" a happy-go-lucky
> Negro as he talked with my husband.>>
>
> [remainder is about the war]
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Interesting. Here's a link to the original letter in the Times
archive, from the Oct. 23, 1939 issue:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772228,00.html


--Ben Zimmer

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