Yee-ha(w) / "Rebel yell"

[George Thompson]

> So, George, you think we're the only ones who recognize the name of
> H. Allen Smith ?  He was pretty well-known...back then.....
>
>  Uh-oh.
>
>  JL
>
Bergen Evans edited or at least wrote the forward to an anthology of his
works.  But JL and I and a few others are no doubt the only ones here
who remember Bergen Evans, too -- an English prof (at Northwestern?) who
became a TV personality.  Wrote a book on English usage, but perhaps
that wasn't prescriptivist enough to stick in your memories.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 2:18 pm
Subject: Re: Yee-ha(w) / "Rebel yell"

> So, George, you think we're the only ones who recognize the name of
> H. Allen Smith ?  He was pretty well-known...back then.....
>
>  Uh-oh.
>
>  JL
>
> George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU> wrote:
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> The Rebel Yell, being a carpetbagger's attempt to establish the truth
> concerning the screech of the Confederate soldier plus lesser matters
> appertaining to the peculiar habits of the South. Garden City, N.Y.,
> Doubleday, 1954.
>
> Smith was a popular humorist, author of Rhubarb (made into a movie,
> probably a pretty bad one), Low Man on the Totem Pole, and other
> stuff. I read this in the 50s, have no memories of it. Don't expect
> footnotes or IPA transcriptions, though.
>
> GAT
>
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
>
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