southpaw (1870)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 11/6/06, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> 1870 _Milwaukee Daily Sentinel_ 6 Aug. [?]/2 He took down the names of
> seven of these little imps, with the nicknames given them by their
> comrades. Here is a sample: Wm. Garvin, "Cod;" James Brady, "Slouch;"
> James Sullivan, "South-Paw;" Pat Naughton, "Snotty;" Tom Pentenay,
> "Tom-Cat;" Wm. Downey, "Slobbery;" John Sheehan, "Slop Barrel;" Pat
> McNulty, "Lunch Chucker."
>
> [No page number visible, true for a lot of page images on 19th Century
> U.S. Newspapers.]

Sorry, just realized that the page number can also be determined by
selecting "browse list" on the Thomson-Gale interface to see all pages
of a particular issue. The above cite appears to be on page 3.


--Ben Zimmer

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