The playground "slide"

[Laurence Horn]

And, as we know, it was a "sliding pond" for us New Yorkers, but whether that's from a reanalysis of "slide upon" (as we used to surmise) or from a variant sense of "pond" (not in the OED), I can't remember, if indeed I ever knew.

LH



On May 2, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> In the East Texas of my childhood, this apparatus was called a
> "sliding board [sl&:dIn bo:d]" in the local BE.
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