Word: hahvahd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sorry, Minnesota readers. The papers were not talking about Harvard hockey. They were just talking about Hahvahd...
...sorry, Hahvahd," FloJo said...
...Harvard loomed large in American society; the "Hahvahd man" entered the nation's lore as a figure to be, depending on one's point of view, admired or despised. J.P. Marquand observed somewhat ambiguously that "if you have ever been to Harvard, you will never be allowed to forget it." F. Scott Fitzgerald, a devoted Princetonian, was blunter. "I don't know why," said Amory Blaine, one of his heroes, "but I think of all Harvard men as sissies...
...long time, I thought it was me. Perhaps there was something in my slow Southern politeness which evoked unpleasant memories of Chancellorsville and Bull Run, or maybe it was a general antipathy towards college students. I tried various ways to fit in, like looking around and sneering "These goddam Hahvahd kids," or saying things like "Boy, it sure is a lot coolah up heah than down in them sewah lines," but nothing worked...
There are different ways of dodging the word. One friend consciously evokes the long-A, Brahminesque "Hahvahd," to lampoon the implication, that he might actually speak that...