qohee

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:07 PM -0500 6/4/02, Joan Houston Hall wrote:
>It's in DARE at "cohee," thought by many to come from "quoth he."  We've
>defined it as 'An inhabitant of the mountains of western Virginia or
>Pennsylvania."
>
>At 01:08 PM 6/4/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:40:44AM -0700, Brad Beaty wrote:
>>>  I need some help.  I am an attorney in Virginia who gets email from
>>>another Virginia attorney who uses "qohee" as her email name.  My
>>>client has asked me what it means.  I have some vague thought that it
>>>was some sort of colonial slang for hillbilly.  I haven't found
>>>"qohee" anywhere.  Can anyonyone help?  Thanks
>>
>>Is there any reason you can't just ask the other attorney? It
>>seems the best way in this case and nothing about your
>>description has suggested that doing so would be embarrassing,
>>personal, or the like.
>>
>>Jesse Sheidlower

Well, the only relevant "qohee" I could google (there was an
irrelevant one) is the userid of someone posting on a
Charlottesville, VA board discussion of local pizza places, and I
deduce that it's the attorney in question.  If so, either her
tastebuds or the local pizza situation in Charlottesville leave
something to be desired, since she's plumping for Papa John's, which
I assume refers to a branch of that franchiser.

larry,
from good old New Haven, the ex-birthplace of pizza