Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1908 — Slang of Other Days. [ARTICLE]

Slang of Other Days.

Slang has always been a fruitful source for the expansion of language, and instances may be multiplied of words now respectable which were once tabooed as vulgarisms. - But, on tne other hand, there have been many slang phrases in use for centuries which have never become acceptable to the purista As lone ago as 1750 the celebrated writer Horace Walpole used to speak or “sitting guzzling” and getting “drunk as an owl.” - : A iitrli <*6o Til luc tltnij tn OTlrf C/T the most prominent woman writers of the eighteenth century, Frances mrney, are found good slang phrases of the American college girl ot today, as for Instance: “I sneaked out.” “Did you ever know such a toad?” and "1 had a vile cold."