Both are derogations, are they not? On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> tried to write: > > "Show off" is doing something that you would be proud of; "show out" is more or less the same as "act out". ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org