OFF: Brit Slang!

[Doug Pearson]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 22:17:34 +0100, Nick Medford <nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK>
wrote:
>You dig?
>
>(where does "dig" come from?)

Not from the Brits! ;^)

A few American "beatnik" slang terms in the dictionary discussed here:
http://www.m-w.com/lighter/cool/cooljanb.htm

(Plus a reminder that it was the great San Francisco columnist, Herb Caen,
who coined the terms "beatnik" AND "hippie", since both came to prominence
in neighborhoods of the city, North Beach and Haight-Ashbury, respectively.)

cool it, daddy-o,

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com