[PW] Plut

[Meredith Dixon]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:13 -0600, T. F. Mills wrote:
> On 28 Apr 2008 at 11:47, Karen Lofstrom wrote:
> 
> > As to "plut" -- could this be a variation on "blut"? Blood? I can
> > imagine a Pennsylvania Deutsch farmer saying "Plut" in an angry voice.
> 
> ... pronounced "bloot" or "ploot".  You could be on to something there.

Unfortunately, according to the alumnae, their word rhymed with "rut" and "cut".

So far, the most promising answer I've found has been one from S.M. Colowick, who found a Rootsweb 
discussion of the term.  The person who started that one had a grandmother, born in the 1870's in
North Carolina at the tail end of the Blue Ridge, who used the term just as the R-M students did.  There's 
no way to prove it, but if the word was in common use there I suspect that may be the source. 
R-MWC, after all, was in Lynchburg, Va., so also in the Blue Ridge and straight up the Valley.

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