Q: Coiner of "power nap"? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

As I suspected.  Your computer must be better than mine.

JL

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Robin Hamilton <
robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:

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> From: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
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> > It's unlikely that this article (from online Readers' Guide) didn't use
> > the word:
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> > LARDNER, J. Onward and upward with the arts [Dictionary of American
> > underworld lingo]. The New Yorker v. 27 (December 1 1951) p. 101-2+
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> It's possible that they were persnickety and used the technically correct
> term for criminal language -- "cant", not "slang".
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>            ;-)
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> Robin
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