From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 8:08:36 AM UTC-4, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > On 9/1/14, 10:33 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > > On Monday, September 1, 2014 5:24:24 PM UTC-4, John W Kennedy wrote:   
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   > >>> You mean in the sense that shag is used in UK?   
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   > >> In contemporary use, I believe "shag" is an affectation on both sides.   
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   > > I never heard it here until that movie Austin Powers, Man of Mystery.   
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   > > Then a year later, I never heard it again.   
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   > 	I hear it only from the UK side of the pond, or from people who are   
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   > very much "into" UK slang.   
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   I have seen things in literature to suggest that Irish immigrants used it in   
   the US for a while, but at this point it has vanished.   
      
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