Re: Re: squinny

[Beverly Flanigan]

Must be the Northern/Midland division at work again.  (Just kidding--though
as a Minnesotan I've never heard the word either.)

At 11:47 AM 12/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/8/03 6:09:05 PM, MAdams1448 at AOL.COM writes:
>
>
> > My girlfriend is from Iowa and she and her parents use "squinny" in just
> > this way.  I have no evidence from any other state or region, but point
> out
> > western PA "grinnie" as a parallel form.
> >
>
>I am from EASTERN Iowa and have never heard of a squinny [meaning a ground
>squirrel]. I believe that MAdams's contact is from Western Iowa, where of
>course
>everybody talks funny, especially parents and lawyers.