From Tamara:
Then there are words invented by the young find their way into the
language,
like hoodies, which is how the youngsters that gather together on
street
corners refer to themselves after the hooded fleece tops they wear.
Are you sure? It's been my understanding that the ethymology
Hi Spiders,
At 09:09 AM 04-09-03 +0100, you wrote:
Dear Lace Chatters,
Jean Nathan wrote:-
(snip)
They said was that people who move to another region keep using some of
the
words from their region of origin to hang on to their roots, but that it
isn't done consciously.
My husband says
'Hoodie' in the US might come from neighbourhood, but we tend not to use
that word here.
Teenage boys in both Chicago and London currently refer to their hooded tops as
hoodies, not sweatshirts as they were once called, but I don't know about gangs
Sue Babbs (in Chicago, with a teenage son who
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they're quite happy to wear the current teenage
'uniform'.snipbaseball
cap on back to front
