Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 13:04:47 CDT

From: Randy Roberts robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EXT.MISSOURI.EDU

Subject: offending idioms



I recall that folklorist Archie Green, in a paper on Labor Lingo,

reported the terms Irish buggy and African diesel were being used on

construction sites to refer to a wheelbarrow. William Safire, in a

column from August 1980, discussed occupational slurs. I think he

used the term occuslurs.



Re: "more bang for the buck" If anyone is interested I can provide

information from the Peter Tamony collection that relates to the

sexual connotations of the term bang and as it relates to drug usage.

Tamony collected info from the works of Eric Partridge, David Mauer

and others for bang as a sexual term. He also found examples from the

writings of James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac and others.



Randy Roberts

University of Missouri-Columbia

robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ext.missouri.edu