Heard: "dog pound" > "dog pond"

[Laurence Horn]

Thanks for the reference.  The Dutch source (iffy as it is) seems more likely than the reconstruction of "slide upon", which has a definite etymythological ring.  I'm unfamiliar with the other items in Gold's piece, "potsy" (for "hopscotch", which I confess we boys wouldn't have been experts in) and "akie"/"akey".  The only word I have for the latter is "halvsies", which is not localized.

I was, however, all too familiar with the "game" of saluggi, which we've discussed here in the distant past and which is covered nicely at
ttp://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/salugi_or_saloogie
It's basically like playing keepaway with the difference that you can't say "Let's play saluggi, I'll be it".  The rules called for saluggi to be non-consensual, with the goal of reducing the victim to tears.

LH


On May 2, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:

> In _American Speech_ 56 (1981) 17-20, David Gold discussed possible etymologies of "sliding pond."
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> Poster:       Laurence Horn
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> No relation to the "sliding pond" (= 'slide') we hung out at in the playground in NYC (from the Dutch?  from "slide upon"?)
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> LH
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