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I have a weak spot for using the words hoi polloi, rapscallion, and roustabout. lol
BegintheBeguine said:My dad, born in 1924, said pillowslip.
I have a chart that shows the difference between Davenports, Chesterfields, divans, sofas, couches and maybe something else.
RedHotRidinHood said:Oh! Oh! And I say "hoodlum" all the time too. My kids just kinda say, "wha?" I love that word-I wonder what the origin of that one is.
A reporter wanted to shield the identity of one Muldoon. He switched the name around to Noodlum and of course the typesetter made a typographical error so now we have Hoodlum. I don't remember the article saying how it caught on and I also don't remember how I know most of this trivia. Probably I read it in a book like Hog on Ice about phrase origins.RedHotRidinHood said:Oh! Oh! And I say "hoodlum" all the time too. My kids just kinda say, "wha?" I love that word-I wonder what the origin of that one is.
thebadmamajama said:Just out of curiosity (and because I'm crazy for linguistics and, of course, the Golden Age), do you also use the language of the era?
The censors had a problem with the line "how long have you been off the gooseberry lay" not knowing that the gooseberry lay meant stealing clothes off clothes lines, kids stuff in the world of crime.I read somewhere that the term "gunsel" first appeared in film in The Maltese Falcon, and it slipped by the censors because they weren't familiar with the term and, due to the context in which it was used, assumed it was slang for a "hired gun". Furthermore it later began to pop up in other noir and crime films used the same way because screenwriters didn't know the true meaning of the word and were just copying what they thought was slick street slang for a street tough with a gun.
You see that piece where it says: "More spoken?" Well do tell me, what is spoken? And as Gibbs says, in NCIS: "In English McGee."You clap your hands
And you swing out wide
Do the Suzy Q
Mix in a step or two
Put 'em all together
And you're doin the jive
Oh you stomp your feet
You swing out wide
Mess around awhile
Shake it boogie woogie style
Everybody's swinging when you doin the jive
If you can't play Rummy, Bridge, or Dummy?
Don't let it bother you
Cause you'll be the King
When the band begins to swing
You'll be a smarty and the life of the party
If you do a bump
And you swing out wide
Drop a little bit
Beat it out
Make it fit
Everybody's happy when they're doin the jive
It may be somethin' but it's not the jive
It may be somethin' but it's not the jive
Well what is the jive?
(more spoken)
You clap your hands
And you swing out wide
Do the Suzy Q
Mix in a step or two
Put it all all together
And you're doin the jive
Oh you stomp your feet
And you swing out wide
Mess around awhile
Shake it boogie woogie style
Everybody's swinging when they're doin the jive
If you can't play Rummy, Bridge, or Dummy?
Don't let it bother you
Cause you'll be the King
When the band begins to swing
You'll be a smarty and the life of the party
If you do a bump
And you swing out wide
Drop a little bit
Beat it out and
Make it fit
Everybody's happy when they're doin the jive
If anyone has ever listened to Glenn Miller's "Doin' The Jive," it sounds like a foreign language. The lyrics that I found are these:
You see that piece where it says: "More spoken?" Well do tell me, what is spoken? And as Gibbs says, in NCIS: "In English McGee."
Oh, and by the way, enjoy the music. I just love it.