MODERN GIRL'S SLANG.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 13 July 1912, Page 10

MODERN GIRL'S SLANG.

CAMPAIGN FOB, REPRESSION

According to the report of school inspectors, says the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, slang is making such alarming havoc among English and American college girls that drastic measures, including fines and severer punishment, are recommended to prevent its employment. The comment is made that many fair students m various parts of the country have such peculiarities of twang and intonation that they are always heavily handicapped colloquially, and the frequent use of slang words now tends to make them still further unintelligible. Wellesley College, Massachusetts, is the foremost in the campaign for reform. Some of the words selected at random from the Wellesley vocabulary, but now tab- j ooed, are as follows: "Glebes" means a person you admire for her achievenments. "Dewdabs" is a word for masculine kisses. A "crush" is a person a girl may fall back upon when her gentleman friend is out of town. "Pill" and "peanut" have the same meaning as a person who is not on the ; square. A "scream" stands for anything farci- I cal. One is "lah de dah" when she is j dressed or "dolled up." j