Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

Cards created prior to 2000, and some later cards, include the names of the students who submitted them. These names should not be published or shared in any way without the permission of the student(s) who created the cards.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Connie Eble Papers #40495, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Connie Eble in January 2019 (RT 20190208.1) and May 2019 (RT 20190523.2).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Jennifer Coggins, February 2019

Encoded by: Laura Smith, March 2019

Finding aid updated because of addition by Jennifer Coggins and Laura Smith, July 2019

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine ethnic identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual’s preference for ethnicity to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@email.unc.edu.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• College students--Slang.
• Eble, Connie C.
• Linguistics--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students--Slang.

Connie Clare Eble, a white linguist in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is best known for her work on the slang of college students. From 1972 to 2018, Eble collected slang terms from her classes at UNC Chapel Hill. Students were asked to contribute, on index cards, slang terms in current use. Student submissions were compiled into yearly lists of current campus slang. Eble's lists are cited in the Oxford English Dictionary as the first known uses of several slang terms and phrases.

Papers include index cards submitted by students, campus slang lists, and related materials.

• Oversize paper folder (OPF-40495/1)
• Digital folder (DF-40495/1)