Love Poultry

[Nancy Elliott]

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> From: Nancy Elliott <nelliott1 at earthlink.net>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:14:02 -0700
> To: Grant Barrett <gbarrett at americandialect.org>
> Subject: Re: Love Poultry
>
> Here's a real one.  I hadn't been married long to my Detroit-native husband
> (I'm from Kansas/MO) when he was cooking spaghetti for us one evening and came
> and asked me if we had a calendar. I told him there was one hanging on the
> wall in the bedroom. He looked puzzled but went in there anyway to look. He
> returned, still looking puzzled, and it dawned on me what he'd really asked
> for in his Northern Cities-shifted accent... a colander!
>
> (I had the same trouble a few weeks later with "a salad-colored shirt.")
>
>
> Nancy Elliott
>
>
>
>> From: Grant Barrett <gbarrett at americandialect.org>
>> Reply-To: Grant Barrett <gbarrett at americandialect.org>
>> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:02:33 -0400
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Love Poultry
>>
>> The Stupid Research Tricks site tells this story that might be of some
>> interest.
>>
>> http://www.msu.edu/~olseneri/tricks.html
>>
>> March 16, 2000
>> Who: Helen
>> Where: Da Boondocks
>>
>> When I worked for a county library system serving a large midwestern
>> metropolitan area, a gentleman attired in jeans & a plaid workshirt came to
>> the
>> desk & asked if the library had any books about "poultry" - I referred him
>> to the shelves in the 600's; a few minutes later he was back a the desk
>> with a very puzzled look on his face & said, "Ma'am can yew hailp me - ah
>> cain't find any poltry books"
>>
>> Puzzled, I took him to our (then) ROM to the subject heading of Poultry &
>> suggested that he look again & offered to help him located some
>> information.  He replied, "No, ma'am, thems is all books about chickins &
>> ducks - Ah
>> wahnted some books abowut luv poltry."   Stupid me - I let my city ways
>> influence my perceptions of agrarian sensibilities.
>>