Re: "You're a prince"
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:57:05 +1000
Aaron wrote:
> By the way, PHONY comes from the word ánne. It's an Old Irish word ;)
Where'd you hear that? I heard it was an expression that came round in the
1940's which literally meant the fake posh voice that people put on when
answering the phone (I believe this is what several characters do in
Catcher's many phone calls) - a metonym for intentional fakery and
pretensions to grandeur.
How'd you get from phony to anne? It seems like a kind of dubious link to
me.
Camille
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