Date:    Tue, 23 Jun 1998 16:55:26 -0400
<br>From:    "Patricia S. Kuhlman" <pskuhlman[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]JUNO.COM>
<br>Subject: Re: Twenty-Three Skidoo
<br>
<br>    An elderly classicist who taught me Homeric Greek asserted that one
<br>of his professors at Princeton in the early 1930's felt sure that both
<br>the slang terms  "skedaddle" and "skidoo" came from college students who
<br>knew the Greek verb, skedannumi, which means to scatter or to disperse
<br>(often used of people as opposed to things).  I don't know if anyone
<br>thinks this connection is possible.
<br>
<br>Patricia Kuhlman
<br>Brooklyn, NY
<br>pskuhlman[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]juno.com
<br>
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