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How interesting!
I've often thought about outdated slang when thinking about Gamma Phi Beta's colors, and the use of the word "mode". I think most collegians think it means "light brown", but I remember reading in the Crescent at some point that it actually meant something like a lighter shade of a particular color. But even in the OED, the closest color reference is that mode could be any of a number of shades of gray. It seems that the usage of mode as Gamma Phis know it, is pretty much only known to and used by Gamma Phis.
It makes me wonder what other kinds of words we use now that will be so utterly gone from the lexicon in 150 years that it'll be hard to find any reference to them.
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