Word: limeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Tribune headlined Sir William's appointment: MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF TO DOPE YANK TALK...
...tells. Alexander McArthur had lost his job in Glasgow in 1929, spent the next five years writing novels based on the lives of his Gorbols neighbors. The books that he submitted to Longmans, Green were considered unpublishable by that staid publishing firm, which hired H. Kingsley Long (Limey: an Englishman Joins the Gangs) to read the manuscripts and check on the accuracy of McArthur's grim accounts. The resulting collaboration plainly shows the joints and seams of each author's contribution, with McArthur presumably providing the harsh dialog, the accounts of Gorbols' uncivilized ways, with Long interspersing...
...Chicago Tribune thus headlined Sir William's appointment: MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF. TO DOPE YANK TALK *As an instance of British borrowins;, Mencken cites the fact that "the London Daily Express has lifted the whole vocabulary of the American newsweekly, TIME, and adopted even its eccentric syntax...