Word: sho
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sho-wae-cae-mettes. - The surprise of our English cousins on seeing this crew row would be a sight worth travelling some distance to see. In stroke, style, and training they are exactly opposite to what the English rowing-men have always been taught to consider "good form." What they will think of a crew whose habitual stroke, even for a three-mile race, is 45, and who, on spurts, run up to 48 and 50 with ease to themselves; who are utterly without "form" of any sort; who set at defiance many of the traditional rules of training...
...from a forrin' sho-ore," is the way a Topeka belle renders the words of a popular song. - College Chronicle...