"Rackensack" (=Arkansas) query
Douglas G. Wilson
douglas at NB.NET
Sun Feb 3 15:32:11 UTC 2002
>I know nothing about the name, but here's an unabashed WAG (wild-ass
>guess). It *looks* like a near-anagram of "Arkansas" ....
That was too easy. What about "Puke" = "Missourian"? Or "Sucker" =
"Illinoisan"? [I presume that neither of these is popular in its home state
....] [I also find one instance of "Puke" = "Kentuckian", from quite early
... possibly an error, though.]
-- Doug Wilson
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