Flavorwire: The Year in Rap Neologisms

[Jonathan Lighter]

The familiar shillin' not chillin' white-boy rappers of the
FreeCreditReport.com ads end their latest joint by saying, "Check the legal,
y'all."

There was a time, "in the day," as the toddlers have it, when I
could comprehend every idiom in every TV commercial. But that time has
passed.

JL


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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