Flavorwire: The Year in Rap Neologisms

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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>> > Most of these were new to me.
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>> > http://flavorwire.com/133481/the-year-in-rap-neologisms
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>> _Yak_, with the meaning of _'yac_ "cognac," is in the UD from 2003.
>> IME, it's earlier than that. But, of course, a memory isn't citable.
>> :-(
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> Yeah, that one's not terribly new. "Yak" was identified as West Coast slang in
> this alt.rap thread from April 1996:
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> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.rap/browse_thread/thread/560ddca9da198180/
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> And it was included in the online Rap Dictionary in 2001:
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> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.answers/msg/f7fa022b9f0ca811
> yak
> (n) This is actually the phonetical version of "gnac", as in "cognac". "Dre and
> snoop chronic'd out in the 'llac (caddilac), with Doc in the back sippin'
> on 'gnac" - Dr. Dre (The Next Episode)
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> --bgz
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Precisely my point.
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