The Slants

[Ronald Butters]

Well, but SLANTS is just a nominalized clipped form of "slant-eyed"


On Mar 9, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 3/9/2012 04:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> All I was talking about was "slant," n.
>>
>> Not "slant-eye(d)," which certainly predates WWII.
>
> Thanks, that answers one of my questions.  Apparently I've been
> talking a lot about something entirely different.
>
> Joel
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