Midwest

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 04:32 PM 2/26/02 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
>
> > Peter,
> > I have noticed this division as well.  I would add one more gloss--
>folks to the east roll their hay and folks to the west bale it.
>
>Where I'm from (rural mid-Michigan) some farms rolled it, others baled it,
>but the only collocation I heard was bailing hay. I never heard rolling
>hay. (Rolling in the hay, that's a different story...)
>
>Just one data point, but there you go.
>
>-- Steve Kl.

This was/is Minnesota usage too:  you bale hay, whether it ends up in bales
or rolls.

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