BULLOCKS - euph/typo/LA pron.? (fwd)

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:58 AM -0700 5/3/05, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
>Well, the pope does sh** in the woods.

Nice one!  In response to Peter's message, I was misremembering AHD's
etymology, which was actually from _pappekak_ with two p's < pappe
'pap' + kak 'dung', the former Dutch word apparently borrowed from
Latin.  No papists involved.  (The OED has the word, but no etymology
for it, at least in the on-line version.)

Larry

>  >>> pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU 05/03/05 10:36AM >>>
>OOPS!
>
>A second after I sent the message below, I realized why "papkak" seems more
>likely than *"papekak."  It's because *papekak would be derived not from
>"pap" but from "paap," an old word 'priest' or 'papist'.  So I don't think
>so!
>
>Peter
>
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>Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2005 10:28 AM -0700
>From: "Peter A. McGraw" <pmcgraw at linfield.edu>
>To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Subject: Re: BULLOCKS - euph/typo/LA pron.?
>
>--On Tuesday, May 3, 2005 1:03 PM -0400 Laurence Horn
><laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>
>>  Plus, isn't "papekak" soft dung/excrement rather than the dried-up
>>  variety?  Any Dutch speakers on the list?
>
>Yes, but I haven't run across that word and it isn't in my Wolters
>Dutch-English dictionary.  It's possible, since "pap" means 'porridge' or
>'pap' and "kak" means 'shit', though "papkak" seems more likely.  If I can
>remember, I'll look in my big Wolters at home.
>
>Peter Mc.
>
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