More Railroad slang and sporting slang

Tue Jul 19 20:59:50 UTC 2005

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:45:44 -0500, Mullins, Bill
<Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:

>"Jim Coleman"
>Alberta | Lethbridge | The Lethbridge Herald | 1952-03-22 p. 14 col 4.
[...]
>Pardon me, but I feel lucky today.  I'll just go over to see the beezock
>in the mitt-joint and get her to read my palm.  She might be able to
>tell me the name of an eagle-bird in the fourth at Oaklawn."

So "beezock" must be "beezark" for non-rhotic cot/caught-mergerers!

--Ben Zimmer