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Letter: Jobbies and jollies

Published 4 April 1998

From Storm Dunlop

Some of Bernadette Hince’s examples of Antarctic neologisms
(Feedback, 21 March)
are hardly new, apart from being grammatically suspect. “Frazil ice” and
“pancake ice” are well-known terms. Similarly, “jolly” has long been used for a
pleasure jaunt. And surely “jobbie” is Scots?

sdunlop@star.cpes.susx.ac.uk

Issue no. 2128 published 4 April 1998

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