"Dad's Struck Ile" (oil--PA dialect?) (1894)

[Wilson Gray]

On 12/16/05, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
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> Subject:      "Dad's Struck Ile" (oil--PA dialect?) (1894)
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> Another one for Fred. I'm doing this while I check in on the NYC transit
> strike midnight information.
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> _THE  ORIGIN OF A FAMOUS PHRASE.; "Dad's Struck Ile"--A Romance of the
> Pennsylvania  Oil Regions. _
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> http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=4&did=431620632&SrchMode=1&sid=3&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1134710645&cli
> entId=65882)
> Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963).  Chicago, Ill.: Nov 7, 1894. p. 16 (1
> page)
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Isn't this the same phenomenon as "bile" for "boil," etc.?
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-Wilson Gray