FW: Jimmy Ducks (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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And I just found the same quote in:

Daily National Intelligencer [Wash DC] 8/12/1835 p 2 col 4

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> New-Bedford Mercury, 8/14/1835 p 4 col 1 [dateline Portland
Advertiser,
> so this likely can be antedated there]
>
> "I have formed an acquaintance with Jimmy Ducks, the well-known
> personage who has the care of the live stock on board."
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> > Behalf Of George Thompson
> > Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 7:40 PM
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> > Subject: Jimmy Ducks
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> > As is well known, (except among those to whom it isn't well-known,)
> > sailors carried generic nicknames linked to their jobs on board ship
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> > as "Chips" (the carpenter) and "Sparks" (the wireless operator).
> > In the days before refrigeration, ships carried hens, ducks and
> goats,
> > to supply fresh eggs and milk during the voyage.  The sailor who
> tended
> > to these critters was "Jimmy Ducks", which HDAS has from 1841.
> >
> > Patrick, who had been employed on board of ship as a keeper of the
> > pigs, cleaner of the styes and coops, and feeder of the poultry, had
> > the distinction of being nicknamed "Jimmy Ducks". . . .
> >         N-Y D Express, August 3, 1837, p. 2, col. 4
> >
> > GAT
> >
> > George A. Thompson
> > Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre",
> Northwestern
> > Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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