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Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 11, 2023
Category: 1910s | North America | Slang

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The Chuck Connors mentioned in the article clearly isn't the baseball player/actor ("The Rifleman") since this was written ten years before he was born.

Posted by ges on 06/11/23 at 10:18 AM

Long ago (in 2005), I purchased a book titled "Slang and Euphemism: A Dictionary of Oaths, Curses, Insults, Sexual Slang and Metaphor, Racial Slurs, Drug Talk, Homosexual Lingo, and Related Matters", by Richard Spears. I found it quite entertaining. Since it was last revised in 2001, I'm sure a new version would have a lot more entries.

Posted by Fritz on 06/11/23 at 11:32 AM

Proofreading problems: "...the world you used for overcoat." and "Thy it and see."

Posted by Virtual in Carnate on 06/11/23 at 05:08 PM

@Virtual: Quite right. Nobody who worked on this article was competent. The hyphenation (in a sub-header, no less!) is a disgrace as well.

Posted by Richard Bos on 06/17/23 at 08:45 AM

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