Tom, a medical student in Minneapolis, Minnesota, says surgeons and emergency medical personnel compliment each other with the phrase strong work on that. The congratulatory expression strong work seems largely confined to medicine, though. Another...
Dibby meant “fine” in slang collected from Brooklyn schoolgirls about a century ago for Dialect Notes, a journal that gathered regional word lists and glossaries. Much of that student slang vanished, including dibby, while some terms from the same...
