Carnival Speech: Making the Jump

Authors

Sarah Hautzinger

Abstract

If one day you decide to forsake conventional life and run away with a carnival, one of the first things you'll notice is that you don't understand a lot of what is being said. Often persons just hired to a carnival crew aren't even called by name until they have made the jump, or traveled to a new location, at least once. In a subculture with such transient population, newcomers are mere first o'May, wing nuts or often simply green help.

Recommended Citation

Hautzinger, Sarah (1990) "Carnival Speech: Making the Jump," Word Ways: Vol. 23 : Iss. 1 , Article 9.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol23/iss1/9