THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, ́ ́ MARCH 20,
1937.
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MR. PARTRIDGE "SPILLS THE
BEANS
›
He's Telling Us All About Slang
A. Dictionary of Slang and Un. conventional English. By Eric Partridge. (Routledge. 426.).
This to speak by the card- is a whale of a book. Mr.. Partridge has gone the whole hog. One would describe his in- dustry as marvellous, if he had not made it plain that the term "us used in Society since about 1930 is a synonym for 'pleasant,' 'nice' a mere counter of a word.”
His book has just over 1,000 double-column pages. Here be marshals every slang term used in Britain since Adam (Page 940) was an oakum-boy in Chatham Dockyard. In future he must be the Court of Appeal on siang, colloquialism, catch- phrases, solccisms, catachreses, nick- names, vulgarisms and (see tie- page) such Americanlams as have been naturalised,
Open the book at random: it fa Possibly certain to stir memories.
you may light upon the catch-phrase, "I must ring the Duchess," from that Jubilant melodrama,
"Young Eng land." This and the
"RIDE
120 the Duchess"-are applicable, Mr. Partridge says, to "resolution of a doubt or settlement
n of or to
problem," He adds tersem
"Arose in January, 1935, from the play, 'Young England. Orig. and mainly London Society." You learn with a regretful sigh that the Duchess is now "ob."
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Mony of the terms are obsolescent. Once a popular catch-phrase withers, it is as dead an u tent-peg. Mr. Partridge knows, and revives, them all.
You do not hear people.speak. nowadays, of "cat-and-kitten hum- ing," which used to mean the stealing of quart and pint pots. People have ceased to use "That's a new pair of boots" for "Quite another matter." The East End of London no longer. bails a stranger from the West End 45 4 "Hottentot."
On the other hand spelling, or losing, a ship for a han'orth of lar is sill familiar. The word should be "sheep." The proverb dates from the late Sixieenth Century--and tar was used to protect sores or wounds in sheep from les
In future, if you want a synonym for smiling, or looking merry, sny Clint So-and-So "simpered like a furmity kellie.' Do not book a box when you to the theatre; ask for a "Charles Jarnes," and see if the box-office manager knows his rhyming slang. When you meet a Leicestershire man, call him a "bean-belly," and run for your Ith his county has produced an abundance of beans for centuries," but he may not like the name.
WHAT "WHAT" CAN MEAN You may open the book, perhaps, at "the questioning interjection or cx- pletive What! (more precisely "What?") occasionally, Eh, what!" Mr. Partridice explains that this en- clitie "what" is:
and
An
infallible characteristic hall-mark of the upper middle and upper
classes (males much more than females) and it is confined to Great Britain; the lower and lower middle classes, and all Colonials, and most Americans; find it very odd, affected,
at first, a little πεια,
disconcerting form
(especially in
in the explosive
a
common among Army officers) in its senselessness; actually it is apparent
modifier (often deliberate) of abruptness, Insolence, or audacity."
many know the derivation of "Great Scott!"? Mr. Partridge is ready: This exclamation of surprise, "also a very mild oath." arose from General Winfeld Scott, a notoriously fussy candidate for the U.S. Presid
ency:
In the film world "lo do a Gaynor" means to smile upwards through eyes swimming with tears. "To do a Garbo" is look proud, aloof; } . and unbending.
"Posh," It would appear, is an ad- Jective now the worse for wear. Mr. Partridge deЛnes it as "stylish, smarl (of clothes) best, splendid." figured in Cambridge University slang 35 "push" or "poosh" as long age as 1003, but the present definition has a warning note: "Avoided by polite soclety since about 1930."
"Rub In," according to newspaper paragraph of more than 60 years
ugo, used to be "a well-known phruse among the doubtful portion of the constabulary-equivalent, in fact, to giving fatal evidence. A hoppler term is "chirping-morry," dating from the late Seventeenth Century. and meaning "to be very pleasant over a Glass of good Liquor."
"YOU'RE TELLING ME" Mr. Partridge's net has a fine mesh, "Ecstacy" appears because it is "an astonishing frequent misspelling among those who should know better"; "Monto" is "a Twentieth Cen- tury colloquialism used mostly by those who have never been to Monte Cario"; the Tea-Room Party (1808) a Parliamentary" group "ot 49 Radicals who met in the ten-room; "You're telling me!" for "I know that was an American catch-phrase Anglicised by 1933.
Was
The author says, in a preface, that his "field is of all English other than standard and other than dialectal," Although he has not worked them out, the approximate proportions are: Slang and cunt, 44 per cent.; collo quialisms, 42 per cent.; solecisms and
catachreses, 64 per cent catch-
phroses, 6% per cent; nicknames 1 per cent; vulgarisma, per cent. Briefly, then, the book is the boo's kaces. Fellow-lexicographers will extend their congratters!
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