The term white trash dates back not to the 1950s but to the 1820s. It arises not in Mississippi or Alabama, but in and around Baltimore, Maryland. And best guess is that it was invented not by whites, but by African Americans. As a term of abuse, white trash was used by blacks both free and enslaved to disparage local poor whites. Some of these poor whites would have been newly arrived Irish immigrants, others semiskilled workers drawn to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. in the postrevolutionary building boom, and others still may have been white servants, waged or indentured, working in the homes and estates of area elites. The term registered contempt and disgust, as it does today, and suggests sharp hostilities between social groups who were essentially competing for the same resources, the same jobs, the same opportunities, and even the same marriage partners.
What would a dog say if it could talk? "Stranger", "fight", "walk", "alone", "ball" and "play", according to scientists who have developed a computer programme to translate dog barks.
This guide will help you to pronounce Ancient Greek according to current scholarly reconstructions of Attic pronunciation in the fifth century BCE. The purpose of trying to pronounce Ancient Greek correctly is that it allows our invocations to be more authentic (and, we imagine, more pleasing to the ears of the Gods), and that it permits us to appreciate ancient Greek poetry better.
