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Tuesday, November 07, 2017

“Slang in America,” an essay by Walt Whitman


Language is more like some vast living body, or perennial body of bodies. And slang not only brings the first feeders of it, but is afterward the start of fancy, imagination and humor, breathing into its nostrils the breath of life.

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