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Super Punch

January 14, 2011 //  by David Keyes

Super Punch

The new book I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech by Ralph Keyes about slang sounds (and looks) great. You can read an interview with Keyes here. One fun nugget from the interview:

I was surprised to find out that there were no “secret decoder rings.”

There were secret decoder pins, but no rings.

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