DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS: WE SHOULD HAVE STUCK WITH “SHARKBOARDS”!

This essay on mostly-archaic terms and phrases used to describe “surfing,” “surfer,” and “surfboard” is excerpted from the Introduction to Pacific Passages: an Anthology of Surf Writing, by Patrick Moser, published in 2008 by the University of Hawaii Press. * * * The term "surfriding," though mostly archaic, is nevertheless useful in characterizing the general act of riding waves with a board in...

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