True Blue --now "CHICKEN"

[Wilson Gray]

I agree with your suggestion, Charlie. My grandparents raised
chickens, but they only occasionally had other fowl, such as turkeys,
ducks, geese, and guinea-hens. There'd usually be only one such fowl
at a time, each female, except, of course, for the tom-turkey. Since
the guinea-hens were only occasional food and weren't being bred,
there was no need of a male one. So, the topic just never came up.

-Wilson

On 11/14/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> Wilson, we East Texas white folks also spoke of guinea-hens.  I don't remember what (if anything) we called the males of the species.  Maybe there werern't any.
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> --Charlie
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> >Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:40:20 -0500
> >From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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> >FWIW, among black East Texans, the guineafowl is known as the "guinea hen." DARE's map notes that this term is used in Texas, but has no "dot" for (North)East Texas on that map. I haven't read the introductory material to DARE beyond the point at which I found out that DARE had interviewed a white informant from Marshall, Texas. Hence, I may be in error in thinking that the map is in error.
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> >-Wilson
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