Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 15:48:54 EDT

From: Undetermined origin c/o LISTSERV maintainer

owner-LISTSERV[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU

Subject: Re: TRAINSPOTTING movie slang



For what it's worth, "dosh" and "rabbiting" aren't new,

and probably not limited to working-class Edinburgh.

I was reading something first published in a zine in the

1950s, and ran across "dosh" in the sense of "money"; I've

also seen "rabbiting" in material from the 1980s, usually

with "on."



Vicki Rosenzweig

vr%acmcr.uucp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]murphy.com | rosenzweig[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]acm.org

New York, NY