OFF:Trepanation??

Carl E. Anderson cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK
Wed Jul 31 08:39:17 EDT 1996


> BTW, Chambers also gives one meaning for "shag" as:
>  a US dance related to the jitterbug but with shuffling footwork, first
> popular in the 1950s and 60s;
> and later
> (verb intransitive) to dance the shag:
>
> which is (sadly) what the good ladies of South Carolina meant when they
> exclaimed "let's shag!"

        ROTFL!!  I think I've absorbed too much British English.  I
would never have laughed that hard before arriving in the UK (despite
knowing the British term!).

Cheers,
Carl

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