Word: argot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...empire, sprawled over the western Pacific and the Asiatic mainland, the land left to the Japanese is a tight cluster of some 500 islands, mostly little ones bunched around and between the four "home islands" (see map). G.I. pronunciation of the strange, sibilant place names will produce a fascinating argot (Commodore Perry's men called Hokkaido "Hack-yer-daddy...
...readers of the Chicago Daily News met two of their favorite newspaper characters. They were there in person: 1) "Oxie O'Rourke," a baggy-pants commentator off West Madison Street who speaks the unimportant man's view of important matters in a side-of-the-mouth argot; 2) fat-chinned Clem Lane, a near-legendary Chicago newspaper man. The two are one & the same...
...much else that happens to Ernie Mott, the bewildered, pimply-faced scrap of slum life whose emotions, frustrations and stumblings are narrated in a stream of his day dreams, illusions and misconceptions, expressed in a rapid-fire, highly cockney argot many U.S. readers may find hard to understand...
Inventing hobbies of great men is an other O'Nolan pastime. Ardent biographers of the composer Handel were surprised to learn that their idol was such a close student of Parisian slang that he had written an authoritative work on the subject: Handel's L' Argot...
...each other-and frequently fought-in dark and narrow streets. Its houses were ugly and dirty, narrow and low. Wash lines were strung from window to window across the streets, and all the time heads were wagging behind the drying clothes in interminable conversation. Even for a Frenchman the argot is difficult, if not impossible, to understand. But its rhythm and music are unforgettable and make you love it; and if you hear it in some distant corner of the world, it makes you homesick...