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Although, that one always seemed a bit forced to me.
Any other good ones?
to this curmudgeonly OP's ear, it all sounds a bit forced.
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tsuwm:
Curmudge on, my friend!
Flat:
Another Rastafarianism that's made the jump to our shores is "seen!" for understood.
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>Curmudge on...
thanks, but I think you're trying to goat me now.
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I think you're trying to goat me now.
Goon, then.
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tsuwm:
Hope I didn't get your goad.
If I really wanted to dog you, I could have said, "Mudge on, cur!"
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After finding the scoop from my co-workers, it is still as I thought (and has been for at least 25 years). Even though most of the older folks I talk to say it is a southern term, within the context of inner city life (one that has a very specific gang orientation), "folks" are the members or affiliates of the south side of Chicago, whereas "peoples" are the members or affiliates of the west side of Chicago. I thought for a while that it may be "race" specific (and it may have been back when I first heard the terms) but it is now very (apparently worth dying for  ) turf specific.
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My OED-CD tells me that folk are : people, race, nation, species, of a kind ... which is how I use it here as we are so diversified in our nations, cultures etc. Whereas "people" is defined as a a body of persons composing a community , nation, ethnic group. A fine distinction. Although I guess we could be called a body of persons composing a community !  Oh, the problems with finding the EXACT word. Had no idea of the "gang" culture aspect. Thanks for keeping this old fogy up-to-date! You learn on this board which is what makes it so darn addictive. (going off to mind her fs and ps emoticon) wow
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Tsuwm, maybe they DO watch what AWAD is doing!
I hadn't gone to this site before, and I just tried their
Beat the Dictionary game. The dict. beat me, with welkin.
Said it means vault of heaven. Never heard of it. Um--
hmm, a tiny, tiny bell just went off. Is that word by any chance in a poem?
Also--it makes sense to me that maybe the word props, and its parent, propers, might derive from proprieties.
What think you?
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re: welkin I have in in the wwftd dictionary as sky; air 
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