Heel or Boot (end slice of bread); NewspaperArchive not updating?

[Leslie Decker]

I'm also going to put in a vote for 'heel'.  I'm an Austin resident
originally from Hutto, TX who also spent 10 years in Bastrop while
growing up.  Family is from Williamson and Travis counties.

I have never heard 'boot'.

Cheers,

Leslie Decker

Wilson Gray wrote:
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> In my family, we've always used the utterly prosaic "end." I never
> heard "heel" until I was in the Army, ca.1959. The person who used it
> and then had to explain to me what it meant was from Michigan. I've
> never heard "boot" in this sense.
>
> Over the years since then, I've asked around and I personally have no
> reason to consider "heel" to be peculiar to Texas (n)or "end" to be
> peculiar to either Texans or blacks. I have the impression that "heel'
> is more common than "end." But, of course, the number of people that
> I've asked represents only a very tee-nine-she portion of the
> population of this country.
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> -Wilson
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> On 9/23/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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>> Speaking as (at least) one Texan: I've heard "heel" in that sense all my life; I have never heard "boot" used in that sense.
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>> --Charlie
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>>> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:08:49 -0400
>>> From: Barry Popik <bapopik at GMAIL.COM>
>>> Subject: Heel or Boot (end slice of bread)
>>>
>>> HEEL OR BOOT
>>> ...
>>> Does anyone (from Texas) have an opinion on "heel" or "boot" for the end slice of a loaf of bread?
>>> ...
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