[Ads-l] Jibe/jive

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Ann Burlingham <ann at burlinghambooks.com>
wrote:

> "jive" for "jibe"


I've heard and seen these used interchangeably and/or "incorrectly" since
the '40's, together with "jury-rig"/"jerry-rig," "jerrican"/"jerry-can,"
and a host of others, like "bestiality"/"beastiality," "a dracula," a
"frankenstein," etc.
-
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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