Origin of Dibble

[loubeelou]

Okay guys, so I know 'dibble' is short for incredible, and all that junk, but in which books did all their slang words originate? Did they just crop up in a regular conversation and Ann decided that they were awesome? Or were they compulsory for every ghostwriter to use since the beginning?

And also, today I was rereading Mallory and the Trouble

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[cpennylane]

Jordan takes piano.

[cassandraclue]

he also wants to be spuds mckenzie the swimming coach.

[loubeelou]

Yay! A real difference!
Being the BSC, I assume that's Jordan's only hobby. People are only allowed one each, after all. :)

[bcsmurfettegirl]

they wear different clothes??

[editornia]

LOL!

[bcsmurfettegirl]

:)

[nerdtchose]

Interestingly, I came across the word "dibble" while reading Shakespeare the other day (I'm not sure which play; I'm thinking either King Lear or the Winter's Tale) and thought "oh, so that's where it's from", not making the link between dibble and incredible.

I'm not sure but I think the language appeared somewhere in the 30's and was heavily used in the 40's as well... I think it may have been a ghostwriter invention, or some kind of device invented so that the books had a consistent style even with different writers. I may be wrong, but I feel like the appearance of the BSC slang coincides with the ghostwritten books.

Is it Jordan who invents the secret agent game? I guess you could say he's the bossy/leader type, and Adam is second-in-command?

[loubeelou]

Mallory explained the incredible/dibble link in a book (I think it was California Girls), and she'd be the type to know exactly where each distant word originated. :)

But if Shakespeare uses it then that's all kinds of awesome. I need to find my copy of King Lear and have a look!

[thepastperfect]

Yup, in #39:
"Dibble is short for incredible. My friends love to make up words. Another word meaning dibble is distant. The opposite of dibble and distant is stale!" And that always bothered me -- I mean, if it's short for something, they didn't really make it up.

#39 (and also 41, the next book in which dibble and acute appear) was written by Ann, but the next appearance is in #47, which was written by Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner.

[baseballchica03]

Obvs if Mal's great-great-great-great-great-great-whatever Shakespeare used it, then "dibble" is a totally chilly word to use!

[janerunner83]

Adam just fades into the background.

[otempora541]

Byron is the gay one, or the 'spceail' one.

Jordan seems to be the catalyst for whatever the twins do or don't do.

Adam goes along with whatever Jordan does.

[wanderingfrog]

Yeah, it kind of seems that Jordan might have his own personality, but Adam doesn't, really.

[otempora541]

I see him as the beta male while Jordan's the Alpha.

[loubeelou]

So is Byron the omega? ...Or is Nicky? :)