Today the name “Gidget” brings to mind a series of films and a TV show about a plucky teenage surfer girl. But did you know that Gidget was, in fact, a real person? Her name was Kathy Kohner, who as a teenager was given her now-famous nickname by the surfer boys at the beach in ... Read more| LIFE
A lot of surfer slang consists of in-crowd jargon or outmoded antiques: grommet (an eager young surfer), hodad (a non-surfer; a poser), log (a heavy surfboard), Noah (a shark). But other terms that…| Strong Language