"jeezum crow"

[Laurence Horn]

There are even a couple of hits for "jism crow", which however seems
neither to be an actual euphemism nor a precursor of "jazz".

LH

At 1:31 PM -0400 10/29/10, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>There is another variant spelling "Jeesum Crow" in 1978 (unverified
>Google Books match)
>
>The Ohio review, Volume 19 (Volume 19 is dated 1978 according to the U
>Florida Gainesville catalog)
>
>http://books.google.com/books?id=ecxQAAAAIAAJ&q=Jeesum#search_anchor
>
>Stephen King's It appeared in 1986.
>
>On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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>>  On Oct 29, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:
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>>>  My only ex. of "Jeezum crow" comes from Stephen King's _It_,
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>>  and there are other King occurrences.  no surprise, since King is a Mainer.
>>
>>>  but GB turns up
>>>  an apparently authentic English use from 1972.  (At least the
>>>book cited was
>>>  actually published that year.)
>>
>>  that would be William Butler's _The Bone House_, right?  (the rest
>>of the GB hits look like they're American). haven't yet been able
>>to find out more about the author or the book, though.
>>
>>  arnold
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