[Ads-l] Higgly-piggly

[Benjamin Barrett]

I suspect now that might be the case. I recall reading Betty MacDonald's 
"Mrs. Piggly-Wiggly" series as a kid. BB

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> Laurence Horn <mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> December 13, 2014 at 2:19 PM
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> Subject:      Re: Higgly-piggly
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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
>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>> =20
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> Benjamin Barrett <mailto:gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
> December 13, 2014 at 1:51 PM
> I was surprised when my spell checker flagged "higgly-piggly," and 
> then found that the Mac Dic has it as "higgledy-piggledy."
>
> 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.
>
> Wiktionary does not have "higgly-piggly" but Google raises some 14K hits.
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>
> Learn Ainu! https://sites.google.com/site/aynuitak1/home

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