"Hunc over de" and the Oh-Ee-Dee?

[Joel S. Berson]

Time to put it into the OED?

Joel

At 10/4/2007 01:14 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>On 10/4/07, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> > http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/s5-VI/157/534-a
> > _Notes and Queries_, 5th S. VI, Dec. 30, 1876, p. 534, col. 1
> > "HUNK O' DEE." -- This is the singular name of a boys' game in
> > Pennsylvania which is very similar to "I spy." Instead of saying "I
> > spy Brown, Jones, or Robinson," as the case may be, we say "Hunk o'
> > Dee Brown," &c.
>[snip]
>
>The name of the game was also spelled "hunk-a-dee" in the Philadelphia
>area, as found in these two books:
>
>_History of Old Germantown_ (1907), Naaman H. Keyser, et al.
>http://books.google.com/books?id=8dgLAAAAYAAJ
>
>_Early Reminiscences._ (1927), Samuel L Parrish.
>http://books.google.com/books?id=s3BEAAAAMAAJ
>
>
>--Ben Zimmer
>
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