Talk:Day Camping for the Trainable and Severely Mentally Retarded/Chapter 4
Latest comment: 7 years ago by Beleg Tâl in topic History of Little Bunny Foo Foo
History of Little Bunny Foo Foo
[edit]As documented in this article:
- Word "Goon" first attested 1921, first popularized 1933, according to OED.
- Someone on the Internet claims to have heard it in the 1950s (most commenters in the thread claim to have first heard in in the 60s).
- Attested in Runaway Ralph by Beverly Clearey (1970) and an article in The New Yorker (also 1970).