Word: dialectic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...note in TIME for Dec. 25 the correspondence concerning the dialect terms juke-box and jook, and the citation by Mr. T. F. Koch of Gainesville, of my paper on jook which I wrote when an undergraduate at the University of Florida. I wish to point out what has been brought to light regarding jook by recent research...
...December 1938 meeting of the American Dialect Society in New York City, Alonzo Turner read a paper entitled "West African Survivals in the Vocabulary of Gullah." Gullah is the dialect spoken by a group of Negroes living in an isolated part of South Carolina. . . . According to Mr. Turner's studies, Gullah jook-house (phonetically, dzuk haus), meaning "a disorderly house, a house of ill repute," is related apparently to words in two West African languages. In Wolof, dzug or dzog means "to lead a disorderly life, to misconduct oneself." In Bambara, dzugu means "wicked...