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Postmaster: Addresscorrectionand forwardingrequested Page 2 NADS 20.2 May 1988 CALENDAR OF 1988 REGIONAL MEETINGS Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting in associa­ phone [512] 736-7536. tion with RMMLA, Oct. 20-22; Las Cruces, N.M., Membership in SCMLA is $15 regular, $5 stu­ Las Cruces Hilton. dent. Write SCMLA Executive Director Richard D. 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, Soledad Room. Critchfield, Dept, of English, Texas A&M Univ., Papers: College Station TX 77843-4238; phone (409) 845- “Absolutism and Relativism in American Usage 7041. Criticism: Redefining the Spectrum.” Thomas Future meetings: 1989 New Orleans; 1990 Hous­ D uB ose, Univ. of Texas, Austin. ton; 1991 San Antonio. “A Problem in English Morphosyntactic Vari­ Midwest Regional Meeting in association with ation.” Avis K. P ayne, New Mexico State Univ. MMLA, Thursday, Nov. 3; St. Louis, Marriott’s “Social Correlates of Attitudes in a Pavilion Hotel. Bilingual City (Corpus Christi, Texas).” James A. Program: Pierce, Del Mar Coll. “Swearing as a Function of Gender in the Lan­ Meeting chair: Gary N. Underwood, English guage of Midwestern American College Students: Dept., Univ. of Texas, Austin TX 78712. ADS Re­ Who Does It More, What Do They Say, When and gional Secretary 1987-88: Grant W. Smith, English Where Do They Do It, and Why Do They Do It?” Dept., Eastern Washington Univ., Cheney WA Thomas E. M urray, Kansas State Univ. 99004. “ Forms in the Middle West: Evidence from Membership in RMMLA is $15 regular, $10 stu­ LANCS and LAUM.” V irginia G. M cD avid, Chi­ dent. Write RMMLA Executive Director Charles G. cago State Univ. and M ichael D. L inn, Univ. of Davis, Dept, of English, Boise State Univ., Boise ID Minnesota, Duluth. 83725; phone (208) 385-3426. “More on ‘Kenluck’ in the Cutover Re­ The RMMLA meeting with include local wine gion of Northern Wisconsin.” D onald L armouth, tasting and a banquet with Southwestern food. Univ. of Wisconsin, Green Bay. Future meetings: 1989 Las Vegas, 1990SaltLakc “An Electronic Linguistic Atlas of Wisconsin.” City. C raig C arver, Dictionary of American Regional South Central Regional Meeting in association English. with SCMLA, Oct. 21-23; Arlington, Texas, Shera­ “Arthur the Rat in Ohio: Phonological Boundaries ton Hotel. from DARE.” Beth Simon, DARE. Program: “Phonological Variation in Farmer City, Illinois: “Bilingualism, Black English, Creole An Acoustic Analysis.” Timothy H abick, Educa­ and Other Contact-Induced Phenomena.” F rancis tional Testing Service. Byrne, Shawnee State Univ. Meeting co-chairs: Timothy C. Frazer and Eu­ “Theories Regarding the Linguistic Typology of gene Snouffer, Dept, of English, Western Illinois Angloromani and Shelta.” Ian F. Hancock, Univ. of Univ., Macomb IL 61455. ADS Regional Secretary: Texas. Donald W. Larmouth, Communication Processes, Business session. Univ. of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive, “The Absence of the Copula in Black English: An Green Bay WI 54301-7001. Alternative Plausible Account.” Salikoko M ufwene, Membership in MMLA is $15 full and associate Univ. of Georgia. professors, $12 other faculty, $8 students. Write Meeting chair: J.L. Dillard, Dept, of Language MMLA, 423 English/Philosophy Bldg., Univ. of Arts, Northwestern State Univ., Natchitoches LA Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242; phone (319) 335-0331. 71497; phone (318) 357-8645. ADS Regional Secre­ Future meetings: 1989 Minneapolis, 1990 Kansas tary 1988-89: Scott Baird, English Dept., Trinity City, Missouri. Univ., 715 Stadium Dr., San Antonio TX 78285; (For SAMLA, please turn to Page 5) May 1988 NADS 20.2 Page 3

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Geneva—In a puzzlingly brief entry in the Midwest Some have even made surveys of local usage in Journal of Language and Folklore IXa, we find school classes and otherwise—very useful. We hate Geneva glossed as “hell,” with a cross reference to attempt definition on the basis of single examples. to Bad Place, and nothing further. The list is from DARE Vol. II progresses, covering D through H, but Estill County in central-eastern Kentucky, 1956. the entire alphabet is active territory. As before, Can anyone explain? address Prof. F.G. Cassidy, Dictionary of American hant bleach—single quote from eastern Tennessee: Regional English, 6125 Helen White Hall, 600 North “His skin, it was white as a strawberry blossom. Park St., Madison, WI 53706. Some folks said he looked like he had the hant d.d., d.w.i., etc.—abbreviations of official terms bleach.” Does this mean he was “white as a (drunk driving, driving while intoxicated, etc.) ghost” or “white from fright at seeing a ghost”? that become local or regional. What are they in Or was this some more permanent skin condition? your area, and what does that area include? Is the phrase still in use anywhere? drown the duck—a children’s game played in the hare or hair tangle—The DARE question was “A water. Reported only from Grundy Center, IA. Is place where underbrush, weeds, vines, and small this played elsewhere? What procedures and trees grow together so that it’s nearly impossible rules? to get through.” A middle-aged farmer from Presque Isle, Michigan, gave this reply, and the duck lights—the dim lights on a car. One report, 1967, from Nebraska. How widely is this used? field-worker wrote “hare.” Can someone familiar We assume that duck means to go or put down or with the term disambiguate the ? lower quickly? haygate—a regular piece of equipment or a make­ shift? Informant Kentucky 84 said it was 6-8 feet fourth-proof oath—figuratively, a very powerful oath. We have quotes from 1846 (Wm. T. Porter) by 10-12 feet and that you “drag it on the ground,” and 1886 (Mark Twain). The sense is quite clear. presumably to get hay in from the field. Does What we do not know is the literal connection: Is anyone else know the term? it legal? Has it got to do with liquor? Or some­ help the poor—said to be what children in Detroit thing else? Is it still in use? call out instead of “trick or treat” at Halloween Franciscan potatoes—From southwestern Califor­ time. Can anyone confirm this? A special part of nia, near Mojave, we are told that these are pota­ Detroit or surroundings? toes cooked around a pot roast. Is the term famil­ Hitch-up-Matilda—Our sole example is from 1942 iar? It sounds very local. Any monastic connec­ Peattie Friendly Mountains 246: ... deep, narrow tions? Avalanche Lake, in the Adirondacks with great freedom bunch—a children’s game in which every gray cliffs and ledges crowding it so closely that player hides except “it,” who must try to find the in places the trail must be carried on log bridges, others. This seems like normal hide-and-seek. locally known as “Hitch-up-Matildas.” Does Reported once from south-central Wisconsin. Is anybody know of this term used elsewhere? How the term known elsewhere? Why “bunch”? current was or is it? game ball—another children’s game, but older; re­ hit the bottle— a marble game, reported 1969 from corded 1897 from South Carolina. The ball was Cooperstown, NY. How was it played? Is it apparently thrown or bounced against the chim­ known elsewhere? ney end of a house or the side of a barn. Is it still hit-up—“A bat-and-ball game for just a few play­ remembered or still played, and if so, how was it ers.” Reported from Quakertown, PA, 1967. Any scored? further information would be welcome. May 1988 NADS 20.2 Page 5 HELP THY NEIGHBOR, ASKS DARE{CONT.) help thy neighbor— a table game using dice. Re­ sounds somewhat Irish, ported from Coudersport, PA, 1969. Any further hoop cheese— reported from Mississippi and Lou­ information especially as to the meaning of the isiana as “homemade from curd.” Can someone name? Aleators onymous or anonymous, this is from that comer, or anywhere else where it is your chance! known, explain hoop? honesty weed— again, a name that begs for an expla­ hot belt (Charlie)— a game in which a belt is hidden, nation. Our source is 1933 Small Manual of and the child who finds it tries to whip the others Southeastern Flora, and it is otherwise Baptisia as all run back to base. We have it from Louisi­ tinctoria, a wild indigo. Is there some ritual for ana. Where else was it played? testing honesty? hot pot, hot socket—other children’s games on hobby— from central-eastern Massachusetts, a name which we’d like more: method of play, where for a large stone or rock. We have found the word played, whether still current. We have one report nowhere else. If you know it, does the vowel only from northwestern Maryland as of 1900- agree with that of ruby or ruddy? What could be 1918. Are hot pies or hot potato in any way its origin? related? hooley— We have examples from New England and ice candle—an icicle. Wright’s E.DD. reports it, San Francisco, and as late as 1960, meaning a 1736 forward, from various parts o f England, but uproar, or a loud party. Where else is it known? It we have picked it up only once: central-eastern Wisconsin. Is it in use elsewhere?

South Atlantic Regional Meeting in asso­ FROM STRATHY LANGUAGE UNIT: ciation with SAMLA, Nov. 11-13; Washing­ Occasional Papers 1. In Search of the Standard ton Hilton Hotel. in Canadian English, ed. W.C. Lougheed. $10. Topic: “Perceptions of Dialect.” Papers: ISBN 0-88911-469-2. “Regional Speech and Occupational Clas­ Occasional Papers 2. Writings on Canadian sification: Linguistic Attitudes in English, 1976-1987: A Selective, Annotated Bibli­ ‘Middletown.’” L awrence M. Davis and ography, ed. W.C. Lougheed. $5. ISBN 0-88911- Charles L. H ouck, Ball State Univ. 510-9. “Perceptions of the Louisiana Acadian Writings on Canadian English 1792-1975, ed. Dialect.” C atherine B odin, Mt. St. Mary’s Walter S. Avis and A.M. Kinloch. $5. ISBN 0- Coll. 88902-120-1. “Dialect, Dialect Area, and Social Dialect.” Forthcoming: The English Language as Used in Michael I. M iller, Chicago State Univ. Quebec by Tom McArthur. “The Idea of Black English.” C ynthia Order from Strathy Language Unit, 207 Stuart St., Bernstein and G uy Bailey, Texas A&M Univ. Rideau Building 316, Queen’s University, Kingston, Meeting chair, W illiam A. Kretzschmar, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada. /* ~ \ Jr., English Dept., Univ. of Georgia, Athens Language Variation and Change, a new journal GA 30602. Secretary: Kathryn R iley, Univ. from Cambridge University Press, will publish of Tennessee. its first issue in Spring 1989. It will be devoted to Membership in SAMLA is $12 regular, $5 quantitative analysis of linguistic variation and student. Write SAMLA, CB# 3530, 120 Dey change. Articles should be sent in Language Hall, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC format to David Sankoff, Centre de recherches 27599-3530; phone (919) 962-7165. mathematiques, C.P. 6128, Succursale “A ,” ------~ V L Montreal H3C 3J7, Canada. j Page 6 NADS 20.2 May 1988 LOTS OF NEW BOOKS BY ADS MEMBERS If you have recently published a book, send perti­ R obert K. B arnhart, ed. The Barnhart Diction­ nent information to Executive Secretary Allan Met­ ary of . New York: H.W. Wilson, 1988. calf (address on cover), and we’ll mention it here. 1,248 pp. $59 U.S. and Canada, $69 other countries. Offers explanation and example, identifying when C hwat, Sam, MS, CCC-SP, PC. SpeakUp! Cas­ and where a word first appeared, how it changed, sette Program in Accent Elimination. Four different what were the sources of its formation or coinage. cassettes with manuals: Eliminating the Spanish ISBN 0-8242-0745-9. Dialect, Eliminating the New YorkJNcw Jersey Dia­ G unter, R ichard. A Primer of American Intona­ lect, Eliminating the American Southern Dialect, tion. Ibis (6520 Courtwood Dr., Columbia SC Eliminating the Caribbean Dialect. SpeakUp! Inc. 29206), 1987. vi + 90 pp. $7.95 paper. A cassette (70 Greenwich Ave., Room 411, New York, NY tape to accompany the booklet is available. Includes 10011). 90-minute tapes. $19.95 each. Each tape thirteen lessons, an appendix which summarizes describes consonants and vowels un ique to the origi­ Trager-Smith , and bibliography. Aimed nal speech pattern, as well as the speech sounds at graduate students in technical but also required in rapid English speech. Ear-training and in anthropology, sociology, and even . extensive exercise of each new sound in single , common phrases, and conversation, as well as John R. R ickford. Dimensions of a Creole Con­ progress evaluation techniques, are included. All tinuum: History, Texts, and Linguistic Analysis of aspects of accent-free American English speech arc Guyanese Creole. Stanford Univ. Press, December discussed. 1987. 340 pp. $42.50. Documents and analyzes the continuum of varieties that together constitute Guya­ Geneva Smitherman-D onaldson and Teun A. nese Creole, ranging from“deep” Creole to slightly van Dijk, editors. Discourse and Discrimination. nonstandard English. ISBN 0-8047-1377-4. Detroit: Wayne StateUniv. Press. 269 pp. $35 cloth, Allen W alker Read. Classic American Graffiti: $13.95 paper. Nine essays that investigate the propa­ Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western gation of racism through print media, television, ev­ North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Ele­ eryday language, and the educational curriculum. ment in the English Vocabulary. Press ISBN 0-8143-1957-2 (cloth), 1958-0 (paper). (331 South Greenfield Ave., Waukesha WI 53186- K athleen Odean. High Steppers, Fallen Angels 6492), reprint 1988. 96 pp. $7.50 sewn. “This study, and Lollipops: Wall Street Slang. Foreword by an underground classic since its 1935 publication. . . Leonard Silk. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., May presents graffiti collected, especially from public 1988. $16.95. ISBN 0-396-09220-9. lavatories, in the course of an extensive sight-seeing dip through the western United States and Canada in Sidney G reenbaum. Good English and the Gram­ the summer of 1928.”— William Bright, Language, marian. London and New York: Longman, xiii + June 1979. ISBN 0-916500-06-3. 152 pp. E dgar W . Schneider. Variabilitat, Polysemie John A. H olm. Pidgins and Creoles, Vol. I: The­ und Unsch&rfe der Wortbedeulung. Linguistische ory and Structure. Cambridge Univ. Press, April Arbeiten, Vols. 196-7. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1988. 2 1988. 275 pp. About $59.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. volumes, 610 pages. $132. This study develops a Holm draws on broad studies of many languages to new model of complex word meaning. Polysemy is make clear how far-reaching creoles’ similarities are understood as hierarchically structured meaning vari­ and to challenge current linguistic theories on creoles ation under the influence of syntactic, syntagmatic and pidgins. Comparative study of creoles based on and other context factors. The model is applied to European languages in Africa and the Caribbean 140 mental of English (think, understand, re­ demonstrates striking similarities in , pho­ member, know, believe, etc.), based upon analysis of nology, and . A forthcoming volume provides dictionaries, computerized corpora, interviews, and a socio-historic overview of variety development and standardized tests. (In German.) ISBN 3-484-30196- text examples. 1. May 1988 NADS 20.2 Page 7 AMERICAN NAME SOCIETY ADS AT NOTE at the MLA Annual Meeting in New Orleans November 18-20,1988, St. Louis 261. in Literature. Dec. 28, 1:45-3:00 ADS-sponsored session at the 1988 Annual Con­ p.m.. Salon 14, New Orleans Hilton. vention of the National Council of Teachers of Eng­ 1. “More than Names in Less than Zero: Onomas­ lish. tic Devices (Re)Create Black Comedy.” Leonard Chair: Donald M. Lance, Univ. of Missouri, R.N. Ashley, Brooklyn Coll., CUNY. Columbia. 2. “Sheila Bosworth’s Almost Innocent: The Associate Chair: Harold L. Lutenbacher, Univ. of Onomastics of Guilt and Innocence.” William A. Missouri, Columbia. Francis, Univ. of Akron. Recorder: Jo Ann Vogt, Univ. of Missouri, Co­ 3. “Malayalam Names in American Phone lumbia. Books.” Thomas M. Paikeday, Missisauga, Ont. Program: 4. “Antonio as Antonomasia.” Grant W. Smith, “Floating with Huck and Jim: Taking Note of the Eastern Washington Univ. Dialects in Huckleberry Finn." Linda M orrow, 495. Place Names. Dec. 29, 12:00 noon-l:15 Univ. of Missouri, Columbia. p.m., Norwich, Hilton. “An Inquiry into the Validity of Linguistic and 1. “Place Names in Le<5n, Spain.” Steven Hess, Nonlinguistic Criteria for Distinguishing American Long Island Univ., C.W. Post Campus. Dialects (Using Appalachian Informants).” Jay 2. “Oral History and Dialectology Tools in Place- R obert R eese, East Tennessee State Univ. Name Surveys.” Stewart A. Kingsbury, Northern “Stylistic Differences Across the Disciplines: Michigan Univ. How Information Management Affects Sentence 3. “The Knowledge of Place Names as an Element Structure.” K im B rian L ovejoy, Indiana Univ., Indi­ of Cultural .” Allen Walker Read, emeritus, anapolis. Columbia Univ. Future meetings: 1989 Baltimore, 1990 Atlanta. For copies of papers, send $3 to Roger Payne, NEW GERMANIC JOURNAL P.O. Box 3356, Reston VA 22090, by Nov. 15. ALL ASPECTS of the Germanic languages, in­ THE FIRST PAPARAZZI cluding English and Scandinavian, will be the do­ According to the May 1988 American Photogra­ main of the new American Journal of Germanic Lin­ pher (p. 43), in an article by Pamela Kruger, “The guistics and Literatures, edited by ADS member word ‘paparazzi’ was first used by Federico Fellini in Richard K. Seymour. “Instructions for Authors and 1960 to disparage the photographers who were hang­ Reviewers” are available from the editor at Webster ing around the set of his film La Dolce Vita. Papa­ 202,2528 The Mall, Honolulu HI 96822. Individuals razzi has its roots in two French words: paperasse, may receive the journal by joining the Society for ‘waste paper,’ and paperassier, which means ‘rum- Germanic Philology ($25 regular members, $15 stu­ mager of old papers.’” dents), P.O. Box 020255, Brooklyn NY 11202-0005. ADS member C. 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