Fun With Words
"THE "Words-Are-Such-Fun" type of session continues to be popular and as the opportunities for the exploitation of the vagaries of English usage, origins and semantic change are endless, I take it we can expect many more of them. I often feel that a somewhat more demanding series on basic philological problems might some time be offered to balance the generally light treatment we usually hear. However, the latest entrant, heard from 1YA on Sunday afternoons, Where Did It Come From? which discusses the genesis of slang words, ‘is good of its kind, and avoids the dullness of mere lists by "dramatising" each word -in the context of its origin. But there is a |
‘a mystery connected with this series. Neither in The Listener nor on the air are we told where it was made. Internal evidence, including some of the slang dialogue, and, in the first session, an explanation of the very unKiwi-ish "furphy," indicates Australia as its birthplace, Why, then, is this not stated?
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 10
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170Fun With Words New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 10
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