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<div>The temptation to offer "White Supremicist" is very
strong, but I'll resist it.</div>
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<div>dInIs</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">...for rural
hick, rube, bumpkin as used by a "city slicker"<br>
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More specifically, something an upwardly mobile Seattleite might use
to refer<br>
to a woodsman from, say northern Idaho.<br>
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I appreciate any responses. I am writing fiction which could benefit
from a<br>
little linguistic authenticity.<br>
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<div>-- <br>
Dennis R. Preston<br>
Department of Linguistics and Languages<br>
Michigan State University<br>
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA<br>
preston@pilot.msu.edu<br>
Office: (517)353-0740<br>
Fax: (517)432-2736</div>
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