And over the next few hundred years, more specifically, gossips were the close female family and friends who would attend to a woman during labour she would be sequestered and maybe half a dozen gossips would gather in the room to take care of the mother and help deliver the baby and witness the birth for the purposes of the baby’s baptism - at which these gossips, godsibbs, would be the child’s sponsors. The word broke down to ‘god sibb’, like a godsibling, although then the ‘sibb’ wasn’t necessarily a sibling, was more general, could refer to anyone you were related to. HZ: A thousand or so years ago, the word ‘gossip’ meant something quite different: a family member.
And so I decided to have a little bit of fun with it. MEGAN JASPER: What they didn't realize is that no such language really existed. Not familiar with any of these terms? No. And there followed a list of grunge slang terms.īound-and-hagged – staying home on Friday or Saturday night Read on, and there’s a sidebar entitled “Lexicon of Grunge: Breaking the Code”, “coming soon to a high school or mall near you”. But that’s just your warm-up error don’t peak too early. Immediately, you notice an error: ‘grunge’ is a six-letter word, not a five-letter word. “How did a five-letter word meaning dirt, filth, trash become synonymous with a musical genre, a fashion statement, a pop phenomenon?” “When did grunge become grunge?’ the first paragraph went. And chasing the zeitgeist before it dipped below the horizon, there was the New York Times. In the preceding couple of years, the Seattle music scene had been co-opted by the mainstream, and by this point, record labels were putting stickers on album covers saying ‘Seattle’ just a couple of weeks before the NYT article, Marc Jacobs caused a stir in the fashion industry when he showed his grunge collection for Perry Ellis, after which he both won an award and was fired Vogue printed a ‘Grunge & Glory’ fashion spread and Kurt Cobain was photographed wearing a T-shirt printed with ‘grunge is dead’, in case you were wondering whether everyone was pleased with all these developments. HZ: On 15 November 1992, the New York Times printed an article entitled ‘ Grunge - A Success Story ’, about how grunge had become the latest big thing - ‘from subculture to mass culture’, as the article put it.
They wanted terms and phrases and words that we all used in the music scene words and phrases that you would only know if you are part of the Seattle music scene. MEGAN JASPER: I was the lucky recipient of a telephone call from the New York Times in the early 90s when they were writing a huge piece on Seattle, and they wanted to focus on the grunge lexicon.
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