Word: yawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adults and offspring learn to respect and cherish their neighbors, who may live only four feet away. In emergencies-a ruptured water line, a balky motor, a hidden leak, suspicious intruders-boat owners of necessity lean on one another. There are no class distinctions or keeping-up-with-yawl in a marina. Says Manhattan-based Les Torgensen, 45, a writer and boat dealer who ran away to sea when he was 15: "The beauty of boat dwelling here is that we've got small-town living in the heart of a big city...
...Aren't they the ones who yawl "I Am So Into You" six times an hour on Adolescent Mawk radio...
...least seven distinct regional dialects that are discernible in what Pederson considers to be one of the nation's most linguistically complicated states.* What is more, it differs markedly from dialects in other Southern states. Thus an Alabaman's drawn-out "you all" becomes "yawl" in the more rapid South Georgian speech, and "Ah wouldn't" becomes "Ah woon...
...each game, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath finds a quiet spot and seems to nod off. In the middle of a gale on Long Island Sound, while her friends are wrestling with lines and sails, Wendy Sherman, a Manhattan adwoman, slips to the bow of a 36-ft. yawl, makes herself as comfortable as she can, and closes her eyes. On warm afternoons in Rome, Ga., Municipal Court Judge Gary Hamilton and his wife Virginia can be found on their screened porch, apparently dozing. It is not a compulsion to sleep that these and perhaps 600,000 other Americans...
Gone With The Wind. Unlike Birth of A Nation, Gone With The Wind had the advantage of sound to make its point about blacks: "QUITTIN' TIME!" "Who dat say 'Quittin time'? I'se de boss; I tells yawl when's quittin' time--QUITTIN' TIME...