[Ads-l] Higgly-piggly

[Jocelyn Limpert]

I've always thought it was "higgeldy-piggeldy" as well.

Jocelyn Limpert

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:
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> FWIW, I've always heard and spelled it as "higgledy-piggledy".   Not to =
> be confused with "Piggly-Wiggly". =20
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> LH (NYC, born '45)
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> On Dec 13, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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> > I was surprised when my spell checker flagged "higgly-piggly," and =
> then found that the Mac Dic has it as "higgledy-piggledy."
> >=20
> > pinkfreud =
> (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/778598.html) says that =
> the earliest citation is 1598, and the OED has "higly-pigly" but =
> evidently not my form. I dislike the OED's preferred "higgledy-piggledy" =
> because it adds an extra syllable.
> >=20
> > Wiktionary does not have "higgly-piggly" but Google raises some 14K =
> hits.
> >=20
> > Benjamin Barrett
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