Book on Vietnam War Slang

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 24, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> I'll buy that.
> 
> JL

Moves it into the "edgier" column, I'd say.

LH
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> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>
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>> Tom Dalzell just notified me that his list contains a typo (his computer
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>> d auto corrected): "Graf" should be "frag."
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>> G. Cohen
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>>> From: Dalzell, Tom [tmd9 at IBEW1245.com]
>>> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 8:54 AM
>>> To: Cohen, Gerald Leonard
>>> Subject: RE: Book on Vietnam War Slang
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>>> Sorry for the delay.
>>> 
>>> Some mainstays of the Vietnam war slang lexicon include:
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>>> Charlie
>>> Country, in
>>> Dink
>>> Dinky dau
>>> Double digit midget
>>> FIGMO
>>> FNG
>>> Freedom bird
>>> Gook
>>> Graf (verb sense 2)
>>> Grunt
>>> Hump (verb)
>>> Million dollar wound
>>> REMF
>>> World, the
>>> 
>>> Edgier entries include:
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>>> Bell Telephone hour
>>> Boom Boom
>>> Buddhist barbecue
>>> BUFE; buffy
>>> Carwash
>>> Dap
>>> Doughnut dolly
>>> Flying lessons
>>> FTA
>>> LBFM
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>>> Thanks / Tom
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