The playground "slide"

[Alice Faber]

On 5/3/12 2:40 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> On May 3, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>
>> You forgot monkey bars and girl scout cookies.
>
> Isn't "monkey bar" another name for what we called a jungle gym?  I think we only used the latter term.  But I suppose if some outlander called the jungle gym a monkey bar we wouldn't have looked around for someone to whip up a banana daiquiri.  And we were also pretty sure we didn't have to worry about getting cut by the sharp blades of a see-saw.  It's all context.
>

Yeah, in my NY suburb, in the late 50s/earl 60s, 'jungle gym' was the
default term, but we knew that there were people who called them monkey
bars.

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