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“SWELL.”

July 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM · Uncategorized

“SWELL.” Because my father used some expressions from his youth all his life, I enjoy language of that period when I encounter it in O’Neill or O. Henry. I even forget and use it myself occasionally. Once a friend at work was telling a group of us about the vacation he was setting off on. I said that I hoped he would “have a swell time”, and was met with gales of laughter.