I first heard the word "goofed" at Mt. View Elementary School, Taylors, SC, when in fifth grade in 1957. Our teacher, Mrs. Bonn Barton, asked Kenneth Sammons a question. He gave a wrong answer. She corrected him. He said, "I goofed."
Mrs. Barton said, "Where'd you hear that word?"
He said, "On TV." I think he had watched a Western.
Mrs. Barton shook her head, and I thought about TV affecting our language.
Funny, how you remember little things like that.
