Date:  Tue, 5 Mar 1996 22:28:56 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: skinny marink?



As a spinoff of a conversation with Ellen Prince, I thought I'd try to pin

down the boundaries of the above lexical item (region and approximate year).

For me, at least, it's a childhood term from the 1950's in New York, where

I remember it being stressed only on the first component, so I'm just guessing

the two final unstressed syllables are spelled in the indicated fashion. I

couldn't locate it in either DARE or Lighter's Random House historical slang

dictionary for the obvious reason that neither has put out M's (let alone S's)

yet. Anyone else remember skinny marinks?



Larry