Sliding off My Tongue
The venerable OED adds new words when appropriate, when the word is embedded in our written and spoken language.
Once a word makes it into the dictionary may we still denote it as slang? Coney dog is now listed. I wonder if Nathan's Hot Dog stand gets a mention because when you think of a coney dog you think of Nathans.
According to history, Nathan's Hot Dogs began when Nathan Handwerker opened up a stand in Coney Island. His wife supplied the recipe for the hot dogs.
His clients included the infamous and the famous— Al Capone and Cary Grant.
If I believe all the legends surrounding Nathan's —then the story of when FDR was president and served the King and Queen of England Nathan hot dogs is my favorite.
Honky-tonky also made it into the updated OED, as did wackadoodle.
Here's my go at incorporating the new words.
He preferred to spend his evenings in honky-tonky establishments where he might meet up with wackadoodles espousing conspiracy theories.
Once a word makes it into the dictionary may we still denote it as slang? Coney dog is now listed. I wonder if Nathan's Hot Dog stand gets a mention because when you think of a coney dog you think of Nathans.
According to history, Nathan's Hot Dogs began when Nathan Handwerker opened up a stand in Coney Island. His wife supplied the recipe for the hot dogs.
His clients included the infamous and the famous— Al Capone and Cary Grant.
If I believe all the legends surrounding Nathan's —then the story of when FDR was president and served the King and Queen of England Nathan hot dogs is my favorite.
Honky-tonky also made it into the updated OED, as did wackadoodle.
Here's my go at incorporating the new words.
He preferred to spend his evenings in honky-tonky establishments where he might meet up with wackadoodles espousing conspiracy theories.
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