Mornings with Dave & Jen

Birthday Slang

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Dave Ashton

Here’s a way to kill your lunch hour!

GoodHousekeeping dove into the archives to determine the most popular slang words for every year from 1926 to 2006…starting with “gold-dig” and wrapping up at “sick”…as in good!

We liked “endsville” from 1957…”brewski” in 1977…and “kewl” from 1990 among others!

The year Dave was born it was “aw shucks” (he missed “grody” by a year!)…Jen’s was “motorhead”…rock ON, gurrrl!

What one was popular when YOU were born?

Click the link and find out!

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