VLVL2 (14) The Natch, 311-312

[Paul Mackin]

I assumed from context that "being on the natch" was cute for  going to
NA meetings. Narcotics Anonymous. Or are we just here talking about
other usages? 

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 16:25, Dave Monroe wrote:
> "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 pass 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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