The playground "slide"

[Charles C Doyle]

Even faster if you sat on a store-boughten-bread sack, which in those days would have been made of waxed paper.

--Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Wilson Gray [hwgray at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:00 PM
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> Wilson, speaking for the East Texas Caucasian Caucus: Â My childhood term for a 'playground slide' was also "sliding board."
>

Are you old enough to remember when the were made with parallel,
double-curved, wooden slats? Later, they had steel lining. That made
them safer, WRT to splinters and such. OTOH, you got to the bottom a
lot faster!

>
> On the other term being discussed: Â  David L. Gold, "Three New-York-Cityisms: Â _Sliding Pond_, _Potsy_, and _Akey_, Â _American Speech_ 56 (1981): 17-32.

Those people sure have a funny way of talking, don't they? I found out
yesterday what a sliding pond was. "Potsy" isn't new, but I don't know
what it is. But, "akey"? That's a new one on me!

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-Wilson

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