How locals insult ocean front tourists from the Jersy to Shore to Hawaii (NY Times)
From The New York Times Magazine Section:
by Ben Zimmer
August 15, 2010
Old-time New Englanders have disdain for the summer people. On the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland, the come-heres are pitted against the from-heres. Hawaiians call white visitors to the islands haoles. West Coast surfers, a territorial lot, have a plethora of terms for nonlocals: Trevor Cralle’s “Surfin’ary: A Dictionary Of Surfing Terms and Surfspeak” lists put-downs like hondo, inlander, flatlander, valley and casper. (The last one is reserved for tourists whose pallid complexion resembles that of Casper the Friendly Ghost.)
On the Jersey Shore, the two main terms for unpleasant outsiders are bennies and shoobies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08FOB-onlanguage-t.html?scp=1&sq=beach%20blanket%20lingo&st=cse
by Ben Zimmer
August 15, 2010
Old-time New Englanders have disdain for the summer people. On the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland, the come-heres are pitted against the from-heres. Hawaiians call white visitors to the islands haoles. West Coast surfers, a territorial lot, have a plethora of terms for nonlocals: Trevor Cralle’s “Surfin’ary: A Dictionary Of Surfing Terms and Surfspeak” lists put-downs like hondo, inlander, flatlander, valley and casper. (The last one is reserved for tourists whose pallid complexion resembles that of Casper the Friendly Ghost.)
On the Jersey Shore, the two main terms for unpleasant outsiders are bennies and shoobies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/magazine/08FOB-onlanguage-t.html?scp=1&sq=beach%20blanket%20lingo&st=cse
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