Category Archives: slang

  1. Doozy, Ditto, and Spud

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    July 24, 2025 by libroshombre

                Three disappearing words popped up recently when I treated a couple of my oldest friends from Texas to a …
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    Category: automobiles, cars, language, libraries, mechanics, slang, wordplay, words | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  2. Reduplications, Great Shifts, and Free Speech

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

                Reading my old copy of “Dictionary of American Slang” (DAS), compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Flexner in 1960, …
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    Category: book banning, books, English language, grammar, language, languages, libraries, slang | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  3. Guys, Dudes, and Brodies

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    August 26, 2018 by libroshombre

      A decade ago the New York Post ran an article by Jasmine Williams titled “Steve Brodie – Daredevil or …
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    Category: American English, language, slang, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , ,

  4. Breviloquence, Tosspots, and Uberty

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    June 15, 2018 by libroshombre

      My parents were children of the Great Depression, and, consequently, so was the vocabulary I inherited, complete with “mazuma” …
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    Category: slang, Uncategorized, vocabulary, words | Tags: , , , ,

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