antedating boondock (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

That's great, Ben.  "Other countries" is good.

BTW, U.S. operations in Haiti occasioned the first printed evidence of
"gook," which also appears to have originated in the Philippines (<_goog_
< _gugu_ 'Filipino').


JL

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu>
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> > I have no idea if GB has misdated these examples:
> >
> > "Sam Williams bought this horse from a Haitian who lived so far back
> > in the bundocks that the horse was not at home in the great open
> > spaces of the Pan-Am field. " (The Leatherneck: Volume 15, Leatherneck
> > Association - 1932,
> >
> http://books.google.ch/books?id=x6bvAAAAMAAJ&q=%22in+the+bundocks%22&dq=%22in+the+bundocks%22&hl=en&ei=aFSrTPSSCJS7jAea9IXbBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAQ
> ).
> >
> > And here is one from 1929, for all I know misdated:
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> > <
> http://books.google.ch/books?id=zXdLAAAAMAAJ&q=%22in+the+bundocks%22&dq=%22in+the+bundocks%22&hl=en&ei=aFSrTPSSCJS7jAea9IXbBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBQ
> >
>
> Also with that spelling:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=fTcgAQAAIAAJ&q=bundocks
> _Hospital Corps Quarterly_ (US Navy Dept of Medicine and Surgery),
> Jan. 1926, p. 252 (?)
> The corresponding districts known in other countries as the Provinces,
> the sticks, and the bundocks, are known to foreigners in Haiti as the
> "hills."
>
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> --bgz
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