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Next we'll be asking to "jazz up" Jazz

One professor predicted these slang words would last forever.

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Aug 29, 2026
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In August, 1926, University of Nebraska professor Louise Pound sat down with a reporter and made a prediction. Eight slang words, she said, had already become common enough to stick permanently. Movi…

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