Date:  Wed, 6 Mar 1996 06:16:53 -0800

From:  "SETH SKLAREY C.A.I." <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM>

Subject: Re: 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

>



I was thin and appelled as such in family conversation. Born Newark, NJ 1944

& raised there until 1953.