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   Aidan Kehoe to All   
   Re: Walt Whitman born (31-5-1819)   
   02 Jun 24 10:05:28   
   
   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an dara lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > Somebody worth remembering. Great poet.   
    >   
    > Crystal focuses on his 1885 essay "Slang in America". It's quite short.   
    > You can read it here:   
    >   
    > https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Whitman_Sl   
   ng_in_America.pdf   
      
   Entertainingly, the slang name for those from Missouri at that point was   
   “Pukes.”   
      
   “Hash” mentioned already as a food!   
      
   “What man, having the whole American continent to choose from, would   
   willingly   
   date his letters from the county of Snohomish or bring up his children in the   
   city of Nenolelops?”   
      
   Interesting essay but nothing systemtic to it.   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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