Boughten bread

Beverly Flanigan flanigan at OHIOU.EDU
Thu Dec 11 00:00:43 UTC 2003


Oops--I said earlier that "store-bought" seemed Western to me, but of
course I've heard it around SE Ohio too, so it's likely South Midland (and
Southern?) in origin.  I don't recall ever hearing it in Minnesota though,
at least when I was young.

At 11:44 AM 12/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>         "Store-bought" was certainly a familiar term to me, growing up in
> south-central Kentucky in the 1960s.  The counterpart is
> "home-made."  Store-bought has almost passed out of my vocabulary; almost
> everything is store-bought, so I rarely need a special term to describe
> store-bought things.
>
>         It seems unfortunate that the teacher thought it necessary to
> tear down a sign with a word in dialect.  She sounds like a good teacher
> otherwise.
>
>         Here's an earlier cite for "store-bought," from our old friends
> at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals:  "The sheriff had testified that
> the seven gallons of whisky found by him was homemade and not
> store-bought whisky."  Dirden v. State, 93 Tex.Crim. 324, 247 S.W. 870,
> 871 (Tex.Crim.App. Jan. 24, 1923).
>
>John Baker
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James A. Landau [mailto:JJJRLandau at AOL.COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:45 AM
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>Subject: Re: Boughten bread
>
>
>I don't recall ever having heard "boughten"; the adjective was
>"store-bought".  I must admit I don't recall ever having heard
>"store-bought" used in
>conversation, except jocularly, but I must have run across it numerous
>times in text
>purporting to show frontier dialog.
>
>OED has "store-bought" with a suspiciously late first citation of 1952 (John
>Steinbeck, _East of Eden_), and a variation not so far mentioned in ADS_L,
>"store-boughten" with an 1883 first citation.



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