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Speakeasy
Where did the term "speakeasy" come from? Is it some Polish-Italian, Chicago cow-killer's patois?
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[nq:1]Where did the term "speakeasy" come from? [/nq] The obvious derivation is the correct one: ; scroll down. Bob Lieblich Who knew it all along
- [nq:1]Where did the term "speakeasy" come from?
- [/nq] The obvious derivation is the correct one: ; scroll down.
- Bob Lieblich Who knew it all along
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[nq:1]Where did the term "speakeasy" come from? Is it some Polish-Italian, Chicago cow-killer's patois?[/nq]
The obvious derivation is the correct one:
; scroll down.
Bob Lieblich
Who knew it all along
The obvious derivation is the correct one:
; scroll down.
Bob Lieblich
Who knew it all along
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[nq:1]Where did the term "speakeasy" come from? Is it some Polish-Italian, Chicago cow-killer's patois?[/nq]
From Answers.com :
The term comes from a patron's manner of ordering alcohol - a bartender would tell a patron to be quiet and 'speak easy.'
The origin of the word predates Prohibition by at least 30 years. Samuel Hudson, a newspaperman in the late 19th century, said he heard th
From Answers.com :
The term comes from a patron's manner of ordering alcohol - a bartender would tell a patron to be quiet and 'speak easy.'
The origin of the word predates Prohibition by at least 30 years. Samuel Hudson, a newspaperman in the late 19th century, said he heard th
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Surely, it didn't originate from any Polish word, idiom or saying known to me. If Americans of Polish origin coined it, they must have invented the word themselves. I'd refer to the language of many Poles living in America as code mixing or code switching rather than patois.
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