http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/11/machine-vends-single-cigarettes/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:00:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/11/machine-vends-single-cigarettes/comment-page-1/#comment-1046572 jmyint Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:18:42 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/11/machine-vends-single-cigarettes/#comment-1046572 Well a fagot was a bundle of small sticks used to start a fire from vulgarization of fasces. Sometimes the individual sticks were called fags. Cigarettes picked up the name by resemblance to a burning stick. In the US the term fag for cigarette began loosing favor after the 1920's and by the end of WW2 fell almost completely out of use. Well a fagot was a bundle of small sticks used to start a fire from vulgarization of fasces. Sometimes the individual sticks were called fags. Cigarettes picked up the name by resemblance to a burning stick. In the US the term fag for cigarette began loosing favor after the 1920’s and by the end of WW2 fell almost completely out of use.

]]> http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/11/machine-vends-single-cigarettes/comment-page-1/#comment-1046568 David Worth Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:43:05 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/11/machine-vends-single-cigarettes/#comment-1046568 It's interesting to see the use of the word 'fags' in this item. So far as I knew, the word 'fag' being used as a slang term for cigarette was a purely British peculiarity. Does this imply that 'fag' was also used over in the US as well up until the 1930's? If so, when did it fall out of use, also, who invented that usage, us Brits who still use the word, or you lot over there? It’s interesting to see the use of the word ‘fags’ in this item. So far as I knew, the word ‘fag’ being used as a slang term for cigarette was a purely British peculiarity. Does this imply that ‘fag’ was also used over in the US as well up until the 1930’s? If so, when did it fall out of use, also, who invented that usage, us Brits who still use the word, or you lot over there?

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