True Blue --now "CHICKEN"

[Jonathan Lighter]

You know what they say about NYC pigeons:

  1. Nobody's seen a baby.

  2. What if the ones we do see are the babies and the adults are like pterodactyls?

  (Actually, I have seen pigeon chicks, by strange chance.  They're fluffy and yellow and they grow into normal-sized adults very quickly.)

  JL

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.

--Charlie
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>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:40:20 -0500
>From: Wilson Gray
>Subject: Re: True Blue --now "CHICKEN"
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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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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