| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| is perhaps the most frequently used of several similar acronyms that label various segments of urban society, especially during the 1980s: young urban professional(s) provides the first syllable; the second is a familiar diminutive. The word is Standard but fading a bit, and it probably should not be used in Oratorical and very Formal contexts. Although many later and imitative coinages (without the diminutive) have remained as slang, such as dinks, “a married couple who both are employed and who have no children,” from double income, no kids, still other such acronyms have advanced little further than the nonce word stage. See POSSLQ. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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