wails vs. whales

[James Smith]

Seems to me "charging, kicks ass, whales a while" go
together very well ...making noise, kicking up a
rucus, causing trouble or a disturbance.  The odd
thing about this is, I say /hwal/ for the mammel, but
/wal/ for the verb meaning "To strike or hit
repeatedly and forcefully; thrash...attack
vehemently":  before this thread, I'd never looked up
this use of "whale" in a dictionary and was using the
word, or thought I was using the word, "wail" in
phrases such as "He really whaled (wailed) on me."




--- Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:



> >>  This use of the phraseology, "I'm in sharp," is
> >> together, hip, way out, charging, kicks ass,
> whales a while,
> >> etc., and is very interesting.
> >
> > "whales a while"??  Is this a typo?  I would have
> expected "wail a
> > while",
> > as
> > in "Jump Jive and Wail"
> >
....
>
> I have no reason to think that this "whale," an
> ad-hoc spelling, in any
> case, is related to standard "whale."
>
>
> -Wilson Gray
>


=====
James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
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                               |or slowly and cautiously.



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