From: mdhangton@gmail.com

On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 8:08:36 AM UTC-4, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> On 9/1/14, 10:33 PM, William Vetter wrote:
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> > On Monday, September 1, 2014 5:24:24 PM UTC-4, John W Kennedy wrote:
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> >>
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> >>> You mean in the sense that shag is used in UK?
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> >>
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> >> In contemporary use, I believe "shag" is an affectation on both sides.
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> >>
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> > I never heard it here until that movie Austin Powers, Man of Mystery.
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> > Then a year later, I never heard it again.
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> 	I hear it only from the UK side of the pond, or from people who are
>
> very much "into" UK slang.
>
I have seen things in literature to suggest that Irish immigrants used it in
the US for a while, but at this point it has vanished.

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