[Ads-l] 23 skidoo, skedaddle, skidoodle

[Ben Zimmer]

Larry Horn points out off-list that the link to the Boston Globe column
only has the first page of text, and the links to get to the second page or
full/print view are broken. This link should work for the full text:

https://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/29/skadoosh/?page=full


On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:13 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Skidoosh"/"skadoosh" inspired a Boston Globe column of mine back in 2008,
> where I talked about the "skidoo"/"skedaddle" precursors:
>
> http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/29/skadoosh/
>
> Follow-ups on Visual Thesaurus and Language Log:
>
>
> https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/skedaddle-scadoodle-skidoo-skadoosh/
> https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=288
>
> (BTW, in case there was any confusion, Peter Jensen Brown is the nom de
> blog of our own Peter Reitan.)
>
> --bgz
>
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 7:39 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The excellent "Kung  Fu Panda" (2008) includes the novel  (?) interjection
>> "Skidoosh!"
>>
>> A friend uses it in telling her dog to hurry up. She got it from the
>> movie.
>>
>> JL
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 6:35 PM Stanton McCandlish <smccandlish at gmail.com
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Interesting detailed piece by Peter Jensen Brown:
>> >
>> >
>> https://esnpc.blogspot.com/2015/02/skedaddle-skidoodle-skidoo-vanishing.html
>> >
>>
>

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