"Big-Foot/Bigfoot Land"

[Wilson Gray]

On Nov 5, 2004, at 2:31 PM, Peter A. McGraw wrote:

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> Or is the stress different on the one that means the South?  I.e., is
> the
> South "Big-FOOT-Land" (where people have big feet), vs. "BIGfoot Land"
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> Northwest, where the Sasquatch roams)?
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> Peter Mc.

It has the same stress pattern as the Northwest version. When I wrote,
I had forgotten about *the* Bigfoot, which is kinda strange, seeing as
how I once had a heavy-footed upstairs neighbor that I called "Bigfoot"
- behind her back, of course - in honor of the Sasquatch.

-Wilson Gray

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> --On Friday, November 5, 2004 10:13 AM -0800 FRITZ JUENGLING
> <juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US> wrote:
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>> Big-foot Land--the South?  Dang, I thought you were talking about
>> ORegon,
>> Washington, and BC. Fritz
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>>>>> wilson.gray at RCN.COM 11/04/04 08:27PM >>>
>> I didn't find these in HDAS or in DARE.
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>> Big-Foot Land : the South; the point is that, since Southern blacks go
>> barefooted, they have bigger feet than their shoe-wearing Northern
>> relatives.
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>> The Cotton Curtain : the Mason-Dixon Line in its extended meaning.
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>> Behind the sun : down South; over 60,000 Google hits (this is also the
>> title of an R&B instrumental recorded before 1957 by at least two
>> different bands, the name of a vocal by the Red-Hot Chili Peppers, the
>> English title of a Brazilian movie, etc., etc.) reduced to one AMG
>> cite. However, the earliest AMG cite, 1959, is too recent to be the
>> record used as a themesong by a local St. Louis DJ ca.1953.
>>
>> Above the magnolias : up North.
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>> I know that this info may be worthless without any dates, except for
>> AMG's too-recent date of 1959. But, "what the hell, eh?" as a Canadian
>> friend says.
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