eleventy-seven

[Wilson Gray]

"Leventy-leven" is a nice, very-high-but-otherwise-unspecified number
amongst the colored. This is a WAG, but it may even be in Uncle Remus.

-Wilson

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:38 PM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu> wrote:
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> Thanks.
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> GAT
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> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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> From: Jim Parish <jparish at SIUE.EDU>
> Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 9:24 pm
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>> George Thompson wrote:
>> > However, one lassie allowed that she had never been to the Derby (or
>> perhaos
>> > Preakness), but that her husband had been to "eleventy-seven".
>> > Is this a familiar variant?
>>
>> I vaguely associate it with Winnie-the-Pooh. Google gives numerous
>> hits, mostly from
>> people talking about WtP, but some of them are for "eleventy-seventy".
>>
>> Jim Parish
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