Word: lingo
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...illogical as it might seem. Sir William spent 31 years on the great Oxford English Dictionary, was knighted for his stupendous scholarly labor. Before the last volume of the OED was out, he settled in Chicago for a ten-year stay, to grapple with U.S. lingo. His mountainous task was to find out what Americans had done to the English language since Jamestown was settled in 1607. He brought with "him thousands of cards representing American entries in the OED. These became the basis of the DAE. Sir William's co-editor since 1936 has been Chicago...
Floogle Street has become a part of G.I. lingo. A soldier sent on a sleeveless errand now calls it a "Floogle Street assignment." The sergeant who inflicts it on him is "flying Floogle Street...
...drinks of his home-town drugstore. Last week the Army announced that he will soon get them. Army post exchanges are importing soda fountains, drink-dispensing machines, ice-cream freezers. Also on the way: U.S. civilian soda jerkers, who will teach soldiers and civilian workers the trade, perhaps the lingo...
...Army lingo for identification disk...
...carry no telescoped name like WACs, WAVES or SPARS; they would be Marines. But "women Marines" is a lip-twisting phrase. "She-Marines" (TIME, June 21) was frowned on, too. But the eventual development of some unofficial nickname was certain. Last week the Corps had it: BAMs. In leatherneck lingo that stands (approximately) for Broad-Axle Marines...