Eenie Meenie & Hazelnuts

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Mon Jul 10 03:43:29 UTC 2000


hazelnuts/filberts as "nigger toes"?  they're not at all
toe-like.  brazil nuts, which *are* toe-like, had this
name on the [honky] streets when i was a child, pa. in the
1940s.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu), charlie's nut from
  brazil, where the aunts come from



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