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Never heard sharp being used.
This reminds me of an arguement i was having once about the beer "Coors", he kept saying it was "Cools", presumably because of their logo, its sometimes hard to tell. Sufficed to say, I milked it once he knew he was wrong.
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JohnT
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Capitalist
Mar 1999
time: 00:35
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quote:
I am currently in debate with a very dear, sweet lady who insists that the term card shark is, in fact, a modern misnomer for the term card sharp. My grandfather was a blackjack dealer maaaaaany years ago and he insists (and I believe him) that the term card shark is in fact the original term for someone who preyed on those of lesser skill.
Considering that some persons have "preyed on those of lesser skill" since the very invention of games of chance, your grandfather must be of an extremely venerable antiquity if he remembers "the original term". If I were you, I would start buying flowers. The earliest (1859) written version of the phrase was card sharper. As card sharp occurs in several of our dictionaries and card shark in none of them, I would suggest that the latter form is merely, as the "very dear, sweet lady" said, a modern mis-hearing of card sharp, possibly influenced by loan-shark. |
http://www.takeourword.com/Issue015.html
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