[Ads-l] Higgly-piggly

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/13/2014 08:11 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Well, the (little) red hen is too busy doing this and doing that 
>herself (when all of the others are too lazy to help out)

Or too overwhelmed trying to write double dactyls.

Joel

>that she has no time to spare to lay eggs for gentlemen even if any 
>of them were around.  It might be argued that all those other 
>animals may have just been too stuck up to pitch in anyway, since 
>they keep declining the "Who will help me" requests with "Not I" 
>instead of "Not me".
>
>LH
>
>
>On Dec 13, 2014, at 7:58 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> > Black vastly outnumbers white (and red) on Google.
> >
> > Perhaps for Wilson a black hen serving gentlemen has unpleasant 
> racial overtones?
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > At 12/13/2014 06:29 PM, Jocelyn Limpert wrote:
> >> My hen was black, not white! lol
> >>
> >> Jocelyn
> >>
> >> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> >> > -----------------------
> >> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >> > Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >> > Subject:      Re: Higgly-piggly
> >> >
> >> > 
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> >> >
> >> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Jocelyn Limpert <
> >> > jocelyn.limpert at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > I've always thought it was "higgeldy-piggeldy" as well.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Me, three. "Higgly-Piggly" is news to me.
> >> >
> >> > Higgledy-piggledy
> >> > My white hen
> >> > She lays eggs
> >> > For gentlemen

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