VLVL2 (14) The Natch, 311-312

[Dave Monroe]

"The Natch, and being on it"--cf. The Knack ... and
How to Get It (1965)?  Also like the groovy ring of
"the new trip, the only true trip," but ...

Main Entry: natch 
Pronunciation: 'nach
Function: adverb
Etymology: by shortening & alteration from naturally
slang : of course : NATURALLY

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=natch

A few examples: "'Let me know, won't you?' She smiled.
'Natch'" (Saturday Evening Post, 1950); "But we got to
ask, natch" (Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye); "A
Montana stockbroker got a bear [tooled] on one boot
and a bull on the other--in actual bearskin and
bullhide, natch" (Reader's Digest, 1996). 

The interjection natch is first recorded in the
mid-1940s. In H.L. Mencken's second Supplement to The
American Language, in 1948, he noted that "During the
middle 1940s there was a rage for abbreviations, e.g.
natch (naturally)...[but a journal] was reporting by
March, 1947, that there were already 'as passé as a
yearling egg.'" It is always amusing when such
statements are proved false. 

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990607

... but interesting juxtaposition there, "robotized,"
even "oracular," an "Natch."  Okay, gotta run ...

--- "R. Fiero" <rfiero at pophost.com> wrote:
> 
> > "But Mucho, with a spaced and born-again look to
> > him, only announced in a robotised oracular
> > voice, 'Why brothers, the new trip, the only true
> > trip, is the Natch, and being on it'."
> 
> Mucho is just trippin'.  "Natch" is short for the
> word "natural" and there may be many interpretations
> of what the Natch is.


	
		
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