Last night I was re-reading Crump's Christmas Encyclopedia and smiled during one of his song entries when he commented that "hop" was a 1950s teenage term for a dance.

Actually, "hop" for "dance," I discovered while reading a St. Nicholas some time ago, goes back to the 1880s; it was in a serial story about young military cadets, and in one chapter the boys were preparing for their first "hop" with some young ladies from a nearby finishing school.

Today I was reading Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl, published 1912. She greeted her well-dressed Aunt Susan in one chapter as being "out of sight"! Okay, all those who thought that was a 1960s term raise your hand! :-)

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