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1. Unconventional young woman, often from a middle-class background, typically in her late teens or early twenties, defied her parents' wishes by embracing a bold, unconventional lifestyle with short bobbed hair, revealing outfits, lipstick, and a free-spirited attitude; Flappers are associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s [170]
Mid-Atlantic accent or Transatlantic accent may refer to: . Good American Speech, a consciously learned American accent incorporating British features, mostly associated with early 20th-century actors and announcers
Halitosis – garlic; originated in the 1920s. [7] Hot blond in sand – coffee with cream and sugar [9] Hot top – hot chocolate or chocolate sauce [7] [8] Houseboat – banana split [16] In the alley – served as a side dish [9] In the weeds – overwhelmed [17] Irish cherries – carrots [8] Italian perfume – garlic; originated in the 1920s.
Older Southern American English is a diverse set of English dialects of the Southern United States spoken most widely up until the American Civil War of the 1860s, gradually transforming among its White speakers—possibly first due to postwar economy-driven migrations—up until the mid-20th century. [1]
Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip [1] is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the 1940s.
A few years ago the former Stageloft Repertory Theater in Sturbridge placed the play in a 1920s New Orleans speakeasy. THT Rep's "Twelfth Night" evokes the "Gatsby elegance and indulgence of the ...
Many Mexican Americans in Texas speak their own variety of English which has many Spanish features (terms, phonology, etc.), Tejano English, a Chicano English dialect mostly spoken by working-class Mexican Americans. A very distinctive feature of that dialect is the /-t,d/-deletion in words which contain a /t/ or /d/ in the final position.
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