[Ads-l] '50s slang"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Actually, "negative perspiration" in HDAS II - with three cites, the
earliest from 1970.

Oddly absent from the list, however, are such seemingly arcane items as
"square," "cut out," "split," "daddy-o," "hop," "ever-lovin'," "schnook,"
"the livin' end," and my personal favorite, "go ape."

JL

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> > On Feb 4, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> =
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> Yeah, when I got to "negative perspiration" (for 'no sweat'), I stopped =
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