[PW] Re: "Bring the Jubilee" question
Michael J. Lowrey
orangemike at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 09:31:35 PDT 2006
On 10/17/06, Sarah Ziegenbein <sarahz at cals.lib.ar.us> wrote:
> Does this help? The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. (2000) gives these definitions:
>
> NOUN: 1. often Southron A person who lives in the south, especially an Englishman as called by a Scotsman. 2. A native or inhabitant of the American South. Used by the Confederates in the Civil War.
Lordamercy, I knew that; but I wanted a cite FROM THE NOVEL to throw
at the ignorant Yanks (two of them, or the same one posting
anonymously via two different I.P. addresses) who keep "correcting" it
on Wikipedia.
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Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey
had to deal with this kind of high-falutin' stuff all his youth
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