up sticks/up stakes: eggcorn origin?

[Wilson Gray]

Bill, you're forgetting that this is the United States, not some free
country "with liberty and justice for all," as that laughable "pledge
of allegiance says. If *you* have never heard a white person say "cut
out" = "depart," what are the chances that *I* would have heard a
white person say "cut out" = "depart"? OTOH, I've heard it said
hundreds of thousands of times by black people and I say it myself.

I grant your claim that, if you did hear a white person say "cut out"
= "depart," you would understand his meaning. I certainly don't
consider BE to be a code that white people can't understand nor do I
think that the use of certain forms by blacks precludes the use of
those same forms by whites. :-)

-Wilson

On 5/18/07, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> > FWIW, "cut out" = "depart" in BE.
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> Solely BE?  If I heard a white guy talk about "cutting out", I think it
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