WELL, WELL!
'flint is what tho man in the street will say, if he knows anything of the particular slang that is in evidence just now. Slang, like measles, is infectious. It takes hold of a community and gets it down. To-day the Melbourne cricketers m'U be "batting well." The Wairanapa, players will be "running well." The spectator!? will be "looking well." Tf one talks he is "talking well." Tf he eats, ho is "eating well." If he sleeps, be is "sleeping well." Everybody thinks "that everybody else is "living well." And so on, ad nauseum. The word "well" has crept m largely into tho vocabulary that itis becoming a nuisance. Even the dogs in the street are "barking well." If people were well-advised l , they would "let well alone." To paraphrase— "l do not like thee Mister Well; The reason why, I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well I do not like thee, Mister Well."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 18 December 1912, Page 4
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160WELL, WELL! Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 18 December 1912, Page 4
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