g-ma

[Jonathan Lighter]

I can't tell you when I first heard "things are gonna get ugly."
 Seventies? Sixties?  I took no notes because it sounded too "colloquial"
even then.

"G-ma," on the other hand, must be too recent for HDAS.

JL

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      g-ma
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [Gee-mah] in Necessary Roughness S01E04 @5:43
>
> > Is this gonna get ugly, g-ma?
>
>
> No smoke without fire, right? Or did the writers just make it up as a
> "cool" expression? UD thinks it's the former--and tons of ghits to back
> it up.
>
> OED has nothing for "get ugly" either and Onelook chokes on that as
> well. JL? BZ?
>
>     VS-)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org