From: wswears@gci.net   
      
   On 9/2/2014 8:28 AM, William Vetter wrote:   
   > 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:   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >>> 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   
   >>   
   >> very much "into" UK slang.   
   >>   
   > 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.   
   >   
   I've known it all my life, as far as I can tell.  But I lived in England   
   from 67 to 70, 7-10 YOA, so I may have picked it up there.   
      
   Bill   
      
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