Re: Walt Whitman born (31-5-1819)

 Ar an dara lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Ross Clark:

 > Somebody worth remembering. Great poet.
 >
 > Crystal focuses on his 1885 essay "Slang in America". It's quite short.
 > You can read it here:
 >
 > https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Whitman_Slang_in_America.pdf

Entertainingly, the slang name for those from Missouri at that point was
“Pukes.”

“Hash” mentioned already as a food!

“What man, having the whole American continent to choose from, would willingly
date his letters from the county of Snohomish or bring up his children in the
city of Nenolelops?”

Interesting essay but nothing systemtic to it.

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