[lit-ideas] Re: help with geezer
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:38:23 -0400
Likewise, in the Anthony Trollope's book The Way We Live Now, as interpreted by
the BBC production, I was surprised that the upper classes used the word ain't
several times. Is there a history of respectability of the word ain't, and if
so, why did it go south?
----- Original Message -----
From: Alok Rai
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 10/16/2006 11:23:40 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] help with geezer
I was puzzling over the provenance and usage of the Brit-English (?) word
"geezer" with some friends yesterday. Is it still in use? To my ear, it belongs
in 'Sixties Pinter, but my sense of it is that it must still be around -
because I can't think of another expression that quite does what it does. Who
(what?) better than this learned assembly to shed light on my eastern
darkness...
Alok Rai
Delhi University
Delhi, India
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