[PW] Re: "Bring the Jubilee" question

[Bye, Dan J]

I notice you say you used an online extract at amazon.co.uk.  If you use their "search inside this book" facility, it retrieves 17 instances of the word "Southron", of which 9 are specifically "War of Southron Independence".

I'd say that was uncontrovertible.

Dan 

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> Behalf Of Michael J. Lowrey
> Sent: 17 October 2006 17:29
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> Subject: [PW] Re: "Bring the Jubilee" question
> 
> On 10/17/06, Roberta Gerber <rgerber at rockfordpubliclibrary.org> wrote:
> > The first sentence of the third paragraph of the first page 
> in the paperback version published by [Del Rey] Ballentine 
> Books, New York, 1997 (c. 1953, 1981) reads as follows:
> >
> > "Grandpa Hodgins, after whom I was named, perhaps a little 
> grandiloquently, Hodgins McCormick Backmaker, had been a 
> veteran of the War of Southron Independence."
> 
> 
> Thanks, Roberta; that's exactly what I needed. (Some 
> officious Yankees have "corrected" this fine pretentious old 
> Southernism twice now on
> Wikipedia.)
> 
> --
> Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey
> born and bred anti-secessionist Southerner 
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