| re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 05:59 pm EST 02/22/20 |
| In reply to: re: What’s wrong with “I feel pretty”? - Michael_Portantiere 04:02 pm EST 02/22/20 |
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Nellie’s line about feeling bromidic sounds stilted to us because that’s a word that’s pretty much vanished from use. That wasn’t the case in the twenties through the forties. The term was derived from humorist Gilbert Burgess’s 1906 work, ARE YOU A BROMIDE? and show tune buffs will know Ira and George used it in 1927’s “The Babbitt and the Bromide.”
Laura, who should be working but is watching baseball and nattering about old words... |
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