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And I'm Grant Barrett. You know, Martha, I was flipping through some old issues of dialect notes. It was started more than a hundred years ago.

It's long since ceased publication, but while it lasted, it collected word lists and glossaries

and language from around the country.

People would report from all quarters and all corners of the things that people said and the words they used.

In there are collections of college slang and high school slang and what's really

interesting about this stuff is how much of it lasts but even more interesting is

how much of it doesn't last a lot of this language simply doesn't endure. And if I gave you some of these

words, you wouldn't know what I was talking about.

Oh yeah, try me. All right, if I called somebody a dub, what am I saying about them?

D-U-B-dub.

A dub? It doesn't sound very positive, whatever it is.

A screw up?

Somebody.

Yeah, a foolish person.

Yeah, it's pretty good.

Yeah. It does sound like it should be a mean somebody who doesn't have their

act together right yeah that word was collected in New Mexico and California

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