hillbillies

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Jerry, but I don't seem to have that volume and can't find the
article on the Web.

Could you summarize for us?

JL

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>wrote:

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> For an article on the origin of "hillbilly" there's Jack Morgan's "'King =
> Billy' (William of Orange) in hillbilly,"
> in Studies in Slang, Part IV (=3D Forum Anglicum, vol. 21; edited by =
> Gerald Leonard Cohen), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1995, p. 99.  =
> Morgan's article reports on information found in Ian Adamson's _The =
> Identity of Ulster_ (Belfast: Pretani Press, 1982).
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> Lighter, Tue 6/9/2009 5:51 PM
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> The History Channel tells us, in program about Dublin, that Irish
> Protestants were known as "Billy Boys."  Then, it says, "the word was
> changed to 'hillbillies' and was applied to Irish immigrants to =
> America,"
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> I kid ye not.
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> JL
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