Carrie wrote: I have concluded, unfortunately, that you can
only pull off most British slang if you have a British accent
(although some words, like
"wanker" and "prat" and "shag" have a certain amount of
portability, if only because they sound exactly like what
they mean).
Like Carrie, I always thought "shag" was British. However,
having just read Vin Packer's THREE-DAY TERROR (1957), in
which she uses the word on two occasions to mean intercourse
(unambiguously), I'm no longer so sure. I would imagine that
Packer's usage of the word pre-dates its use over here.
Al Guthrie
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