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...Canadian kindergartens over a month's time. "I" was the word used most frequently, averaging 1,044 times; "the" was second, 616 times; "teacher" came eighth; "what," 13th; "mother," 24th; "father," 80th ("papa" appeared entirely obsolete). "Please" and "thank you" were almost unknown. City children knew fighting words and slang. The size of an average kindergartner vocabulary was not made public after this laborious study...
...Most college slang goes a mile over the heads of the common run of theatre goers," remarked Walter Catlett, comedian in "Lady, Be Good" as he disentangled himself from a small boy costume, following last night's performance at the Colonial Theatre...
...Many a current slang phrase or expression is the creation of a dizzy brain overheard and remembered by a clearer head. The streets of New York between midnight and dawn, when the inebriates come sailing home, are productive fields for the professional wise cracker," answered Mr. Catlett when asked about the source of his humorous sayings...
American Negro Is Slang Producer...
...Then there is the American Negro probably the most slang productive race in the world. It was the Southern darky who first spoke of his tired and aching feet as 'dogs'. This word has gone through a hundred stages of development and its ramifications and embellishments are to be found in the daily conversation of many people today. Slang is the effort to economize in the use of words--to make a single one do the work of several sentences--as well as to be funny...